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Pink Mountain
North of Fort St. John, Pink Mountain has yielded various fossils including
those of ichthyosaurs and various small clams. Over the past few years paleontologists
and their volunteers have been working at the site, where they first removed an
ichthysaur skull a few years ago.
Ichthyosaur Rib
Fossilized Ichthyosaur rib at the Pink Mountain site.
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![Ichthyosaur Rib](pink/bluerib_thumb.jpg) Ichthyosaur Rib
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Ichthyosaur Rib
Fossilized Ichthyosaur as the above, but wt so it is easier
to see the shells that surround the Ichthyosaur. These shells made
it more difficult to remove the rock from around the fossil because
it was harder than normal rock.
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![Ichthyosaur Rib](pink/bluerib2_thumb.jpg) Ichthyosaur Rib
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Ichthyosaur Fossil
This picture shows the image above from a further distance away.
The broom head provides a scale for the picture. |
![Ichthyosaur](pink/fossil2_thumb.jpg) Ichthyosaur
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Ichthyosaur Skull
The first to be excavated, this incomplete skull
(eye to the back of the skull) weighed two and a half tons alone,
and was 5-6 feet long. |
![Ichthyosaur Skull](pink/fossil3_thumb.jpg) Ichthyosaur Skull
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The Site
A good picture showing the situation of the excavation site.
The fossil itself is just below the gear (look for the yellow),
against the grassy bank (also, look for the white sections in the
rock to help spot it). |
![site](pink/site_thumb.jpg) Excavation Site
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Fossil
An up close view of the fossil. The white line in the picture is the spray-painted grid. |
![Fossil](pink/rock1_thumb.jpg) Fossil
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Ichthyosaur Spine
The section of the spine that reaches into the bottom
portion of the Ichthyosaur's tail. The rest of the Ichthyosaur
fossil is towards the top of the image. |
![Ichthyosaur Spine](pink/tools1_thumb.jpg) Icthyosaur Spine
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Ichthyosaur Fossil
More ichthyosaur fossil. |
![Fossil](pink/tools2_thumb.jpg) Fossil
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Grid Map
An example of how palaeontologists transfer where
the fossil lies in the ground to a grid. |
![Grid Map](pink/gridmap_thumb.jpg) Grid Map
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Vertebrae
An ichthyosaur vertebrae from the site. |
![Vertebrae](pink/vertebrae_thumb.jpg) Vertebrae
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Spine
A section of another Ichthyosaur spine. It was found underneath the other Ichthyosaur. |
![Spine](pink/spine_thumb.jpg) Spine
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Process
Ichthyosaur
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