Narraway River tracksite (RTMP) (Cretaceous of Canada)

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

• single ripple-marked sandstone bedding plane.

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)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Dinosauria -
Dinosauria indet. dinosaur
trackway
 Theropoda -
Theropoda indet. theropod
footprints