Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.3° N, 120.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.0° N, 63.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Gorman Creek Formation (Minnes Group), Valanginian (139.8 - 132.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by D. F. Stott, P. Currie in 1970s, 1981; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• More than 200 footprint preserved in at least eight trackways. Much of the vertical wall collapsed before 1991.
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: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52589: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 11.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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