Also known as Tanke Site 4, Tyrants Isle
Where: Alberta, Canada (55.1° N, 119.4° W: paleocoordinates 63.8° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Unit 4 Member (Wapiti Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)
• within lower Unit 4 (correlated with Drumheller Member of Horseshoe Canyon Formation)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; tabular, medium-grained sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Collected by D. Tanke; F. Fanti in 1983, 1989, 2003, 2011–2012, 2018; reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,
• Theropod track was discovered and collected by Darren Tanke, 1 km downstream.
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 52656: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.08.2005, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842 dinosaur track Tri.I.4B ("indeterminate morphotype B" - hadrosaurid or tyrannosaurid)
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Coelurosauria indet. Huene 1914 coelurosaur trackway Th.Tw1 ("Ornithomimid or juvenile tyrannosaurid")
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? Troodontidae indet. Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran trackway Di.Tw1, track Di.I.34E ("probable troodontid")
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Hadrosauropodus sp. Lockley et al. 2003 ornithopod track TMP 86.80.1; trackways H.Tw1, Tw6, Tw7; tracks H.I.9C, 19C, 68-A, 72-A, 72A, 76-B
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Rhizocorallium sp. Zenker 1836 | |