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Joseph Burr Tyrrell ( Weston, 1º novembre 1858 – Toronto, 26 agosto 1957) è stato un paleontologo e geologo canadese .
Joseph Burr Tyrrell, FRSC (November 1, 1858 – August 26, 1957) was a Canadian geologist, cartographer, mining consultant and historian. He discovered dinosaur ( Albertosaurus sarcophagus) bones in Alberta 's Badlands and coal around Drumheller in 1884.
10 gen 2008 · Joseph Burr Tyrrell, geologist, explorer, historian (born 1 November 1858 in Weston, Canada West; died 26 August 1957 in Toronto, ON). Tyrrell explored the vast areas of western and northern Canada, consolidating information gathered by earlier explorers and filling in blank spots on the maps, especially in the Northwest Territories ...
2 mar 2016 · A Canadian geologist makes an astounding discovery of dinosaur bones in the Alberta badlands (1884). For more information about Joseph Tyrrell, visit: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca...
On August 12, 1884, Joseph Burr Tyrrell (TEER-uhl), a geologist with the Geological Survey of Canada, found the 70-million-year-old skull of a carnivorous dinosaur near present-day Drumheller. Tyrrell’s find was named Albertosaurus sarcophagus (“flesh-eating lizard from Alberta”) in 1905 by American Museum of Natural History ...
15 ott 2013 · While exploring for coal in 1884, Tyrrell made the first discovery of a dinosaur in the Red Deer River Valley. This was a skull of Albertosaurus. It was his most famous fossil collection, but nearly as important were the many invertebrate fossils he collected.
Joseph Tyrrell has been variously described as the doyen of Canadian mining men, the dean of mining, the man who conquered the Canadian North, Canada’s senior geologist, and the last of the great breed of mapmaking explorers and first of the modern mineralfinders and technologists.
