Michel Coal Mine tracksite (Jurassic to of Canada)

Also known as B seam, #3 mine, Crow's Nest Pass Coal

Where: British Columbia, Canada (49.7° N, 114.8° W: paleocoordinates 47.2° N, 59.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mist Mountain Formation, Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; shale

• carbonaceous mud covered by a mat of fern fronds

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Collected by H. P. Wilson in 1940; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 1989. Dinosaur footprints of western Canada. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 293-300 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 52586: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.08.2005

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
RBCM 722, TMP 79.22.2, 79.22.3
Irenesauripus cf. acutus Sternberg 1932 theropod
NMC 8827, NMC 8828
unclassified
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Pteridophyta indet. Haeckel 1875