About
About The Royal Tyrrell Museum
The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology (RTMP) is an official designated repository for fossils collected in the Province of Alberta. The Museum's collection contains more than 180,000 individual specimens and bulk lots of specimens, including over 350 holotypes. On average, 2000+ specimens are added annually to the Museum's collection. Specimens in the collection are used for scientific research, public education, and exhibition. The holdings consist mainly of fossils, but also include lesser numbers of geological specimens, and a small reference collection of extant specimens. All continents and major geological intervals are represented, but the bulk of the collection is devoted to specimens from the Mesozoic of western Canada, particularly Alberta. The collection contains significant holdings of Cretaceous vertebrates from Alberta (especially Middle Campanian-aged specimens from Dinosaur Provincial Park),Cretaceous invertebrates and Cretaceous and Palaeocene mammals, plants, and palynomorphs from Alberta; Triassic marine fishes and reptiles, and Middle Cambrian "Burgess Shale" invertebrates from British Columbia.
The mandate of the RTMP is to focus on specimens older than 2.6 mya (the end of the Pliocene Epoch), specimens from the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs are under the care of the Quaternary Palaeontology Program at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta.
To visit the RTMP or learn about the science we're conducting, please visit www.tyrrellmuseum.com
There are a few ways to browse the Online Collection:
On the homepage, you can browse curated selections from our collection.
On the Favourites page, you can browse user-created collections. You can add your own favorites to Community Favourites by registering on the site and creating sets that are marked "public".
Enter keywords or names in the search box (Quick Search) to find objects or other records in our collection. To search on specific criteria, you can use the advanced search to search within certain data fields. You can search using multiple criteria, such as the term "portrait" in the title + a date range of "1800-1900". If you are not getting any results with advanced search, try broadening your search by removing criteria.
- You can use an * (asterisk) as a wildcard in searches, to match partial terms (e.g. draw* will return results for draw, drawn, drawings, etc.)
- Use quotation marks to get more exact results - e.g. John Doe will return any results with John or Doe, but "John Doe" will return results with this exact phrase.
There are different types of search results, such as object records and people records. When there is more than one type of result, you can choose different types of records to view.
You can refine a result set by using filters to narrow down results. For example, you can filter to see only specimens that have images within any result set. You can also clear each filter to revert to a larger result set, or clear all filters to get to your original result set.
An image may be shown as not available if it is not yet available in our database, or if it cannot be displayed for copyright reasons.
Favourites allows you to create your own sets from the collection objects available on this site. You can share your Favourites with others, or create sets of specimens for your own viewing (Favourites are private by default).
You can optionally add a description for each Favourites set. You can view your collection sets by going to the "Favourites" page and logging into your account.
To use Favourites, you must first register an account. Once you have completed registration, you can start creating Favourites sets and adding specimens to them.
You can add specimens to your sets by clicking on the heart symbol while viewing objects, and selecting which set to add the artwork(s). After selection, you can choose to add all selected specimens on the page to a Favourite. You can also add the entire result set or all objects on a page.
If you mark your Favourites set public, this Favourite will be visible to others in the Community Favourites section. The option to mark a set as public is available when you edit your Favourite.
After setting a Favourite set as public, you can also share the link to allow others to view your set.