Where: Alberta, Canada (50.0° N, 113.4° W: paleocoordinates 57.8° N, 86.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: St. Mary River Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• "the possible stratigraphic interval between ichnite and skeleton could not have exceeded 8 feet."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; micaceous sandstone and carbonaceous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace, soft parts
Collected by Ledbetter in 1923, 1955; reposited in the GSC
Collection methods: surface (float),
• thrown out by canal excavation in 1923 but not brought to scientific attention until 1955
Primary reference: W. Langston. 1960. A hadrosaurian ichnite. National Museum of Canada Natural History Papers 4:1-9 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 34743: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.09.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
? Lambeosaurinae indet. Parks 1923 lambeosaurine |