Morden’s fossil museum adds new exhibit
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The Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre makes no bones about its display of tiny figures — a marked contrast to its display of the largest mosasaur in the country.
The new exhibit boasts tiny human figures working away at a model of the bentonite mining site which is where it all began for the Morden museum.
The new display — created by museum volunteer Linda Scott with a Hudson’s Bay Company Foundation grant — is an intricate miniature of the mining site, complete with mining equipment at work and an excavation crew uncovering one of the dozens of marine reptile fossils found by miners at the Pembina Hills site in the early 1970s. The fossil discoveries at that site — including 30 mosasaur and 20 plesiosaur specimens over the course of two years — ultimately led to the creation of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre, currently housed in the Morden Community Centre.
The centre houses the largest collection of marine reptile fossils in Canada, including a 13-metre mosasaur named Bruce, the largest mosasaur in the country.