Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre

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The CFDC held its Annual General Meeting!

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre held its annual general meeting on April 26. Five new board members were added and a sixth was appointed at a subsequent board meeting. The new board for 2012 consists of returning members Heather Francis (President), Kevin Campbell (Vice-President), Joe Brown (Treasurer) and Ted Nelson. New board members include Cathy Cramer (Secretary), Walter Siemens, Kent Winning, Barb Petkau, James Bamburak and Alwin Kehler.

 

Also, The CFDC Welcomes Peter Cantelon as its acting Executive Director!

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CFDC's Annual Volunteer Appreciation Evening

Book a Fossil Dig Adventure Tour and see for yourself why the Discovery Channel keeps coming back to the CFDC!

Maclean's Magazine Lists CFDC as Top 5 Manitoba Travel Destination. Read the article here.

Manitoba Star Attraction

The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre houses the largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada. If you like dinosaurs or sea monsters you will love "Bruce" our 43 ft (13 mtr) Mosasaur, the fiercest of all the marine reptiles. He's bigger than a T Rex and just as scary. It's because of him that the Cretaceous seas were considered the most dangerous of all time. Join our staff on the beautiful Manitoba Escarpment in their search for Bruce's mother. All you have to do is register for one of our Fossil Dig Programs to begin your own outdoor fossil finding adventure.

"Dedicated to excellence in fossil preservation, research and learning experiences."

Swimming with Bruce

The Canadian landscape is host to a vast array of great fossils, from dinosaurs in the west to marine reptiles in the prairies.

This fossil museum in Morden, Manitoba offers a great presentation of prehistoric life in the Western Interior Seaway. Come to the museum and meet our T.rex of the Sea, “Bruce”. At 43 feet in length, our “Bruce” is the largest Mosasaur in Canada. Our fossils are marine reptiles, but many think of them as the ‘underwater dinosaurs’ of Manitoba.

We offer the following programs to our visitors: Fossil Dig Adventure Tours, Guided Museum Tours, Summer Day Camps for kids, School Museum Tours, School Dig Tours & an Indoor Fossil Program.

We collect fossils from these ancient animals:

• Mosasaurs - Hainosaurus, Tylosaurus, Clidastes, Platecarpus, Plioplatecarpus
• Plesiosaurs - Elasmosaurids, Polycotylids
• Sharks - Sqaulicorex
• Fish - Xiphactinus, Pachyrhizodus, Ichthyodectes, Enchodus, Elopopsis, Cimolichthyes
• Turtles - Achelon, Protostega, Toxochelys
• Birds - Hesperornis, Ichthyomis, Baptornis, Parahesperornis
• Squid

We hope that as you scan through these Web pages, your imagination will take you back 80 Million years - further than the mind can fully comprehend. What you will discover are skeletal drawings and artists renditions of large marine reptiles which existed in this area of Canada during the Cretaceous Period. Go ahead! Start your excursion! We hope it will arouse your curiosity sufficiently to bring you to our Museum to see the largest collection of Marine Reptile Fossils in Canada.