north shore, Peace River Canyon (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 65.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gething Formation (Bullhead Mountain Group), Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• Several meters below GSC locality C-6919; 65 m below Ferro Point coal seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; burrowed, paleosol/pedogenic, sandy siltstone

• "arenaceous siltstone" representing "an organic-rich mud with closely spaced ripples, root traces, and worm burrows and trails."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collected in 1979

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 1981. Bird footprints from the Gething Formation (Aptian, Lower Cretaceous) of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(3-4):257-264 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38894: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.05.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Aves
  - Avipedidae
Aquatilavipes swiboldae n. gen. n. sp.
Aquatilavipes swiboldae n. gen. n. sp. Currie 1981 bird
over 200 prints
Reptilia
 Ornithischia -
Ornithopoda indet.
Ornithopoda indet. ornithopod
tracks
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Amblydactylus sp.
Amblydactylus sp. Sternberg 1932 ornithopod
track
Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet.
Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
tracks