
Credit: Royal BC Museum/Shane Lighter
Dr. Victoria Arbour gave an engaging illustrated lecture on A New Look at the Dinosaurs of British Columbia to a full crowd in the museum’s Rotary Gallery on December 3. Her presentation centered on a dinosaur discovered on the Spateze Plateau in northern British Columbia, dated from about 68 million years ago: Ferrisaurus sustutensis, “the Iron Lizard of the Sustut River.”
While Dr. Arbour is a dinosaur specialist and the large vertebrate fossils that have been found to date on Vancouver Island are marine reptiles, she and her team from the RBCM were impressed with the Courtenay Museum’s lab and collection. Natural History Curator, Pat Trask, led the private tour.