The VicPS May monthly meeting will be held on the evening of Tuesday, May 19. Our Zoom meetings are open to the public; please share this info and link with your friends:
Speaker: Edward Davies, Branta Biostratigraphy Ltd.
Topic: Fossil Assessments and Recoveries During 15 Years of Consulting on Major BC Development Projects
Time: May 19, 2026, 07:30 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Zoom Meeting Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81587554448?pwd=X25mPhaumv163NT1nstmyOV6xGwr0S.1
Meeting ID: 815 8755 4448 Passcode: 325872
Since 2009, Branta Biostratigraphy has been engaged in the paleontological assessments of numerous industrial development projects across British Columbia, including electrical dam and transmission lines, pipelines, aggregate, gold and copper mines and urban development.
Through it all, numerous fossil sites have been discovered and investigated, and where appropriate, an extraordinary number of fossils have been recovered. All of these have been documented and located as precisely as possible and subsequently deposited at the RBCM.
One of the most interesting aspects of this is the diversity of forms encountered over a broad range of ages and terrains. From Ordovician to Triassic, Jurassic through the Cretaceous, Eocene, Pleistocene and Holocene. Marine invertebrate faunas including giant clams, large and small ammonites of all life stages, trace fossils, insects often displayed in beautiful fossil-scapes. Also, vertebrates including whole fish skeletons, dinosaur traces, marine reptile bones, bird bones, mammal bones including muskrat, mammoth, deer, bison, elk, and ground sloth.
Exquisite plant fossils were especially prominent in new Eocene and Pleistocene deposits, with a variety of leaves, flowers and seeds, opalized tree trunks and in situ stumps sometimes thought of as our “glass forests’. The variety and beauty of fossils to be found in BC seems to have only scratched the surface.
We look forward to Edward’s at this meeting.