1st Reported by the Calgary Sun: Calgary’s Cappon family is torn — Capponosaurus or Capponodon? After learning the pristine dinosaur fossil they uncovered this summer in southern Alberta could be a new species, the family is now debating — with tongue firmly in cheek — what it should be called.
Evan Cappon and his two sons, 14-year-old Jared and 11-year-old Aiden, were fishing on the Castle River southwest of Calgary in August when the oldest boy stumbled on the amazing find.
Jared struck out alone upriver from where his dad and younger brother were fishing when he came across a one-tonne sandstone boulder that had a little something extra.
“I walked by big rock that looked like it had a tire track in it — when I came back and looked again I realized it was a spine,” he said.
“When I walked up to it, I realized it was a dinosaur.”
Turns out the 80-million-year-old fossil, likely unearthed during the 2013 flood, was a species of duck-billed dinosaur that had never been found in that part of the province.
The family let scientists at Drumheller’s Royal Tyrrell Museum know about the find and in September managed to fly the boulder to the facility by helicopter.
- Watch the riverbed extraction HERE
Jared’s proud dad said the discovery has been very exciting, but until the announcement was made about the potentially new species, they had no idea it would be so big.
“We were actually on holidays so we had no clue,” said the 47-year-old teacher at Master’s Academy.
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