1.75 miles upstream from Gething's mine, Peace River Canyon (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (56.0° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 57.7° N, 70.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gething Formation (Bullhead Mountain Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• 262 feet above Grant seam; correlated with "lower Blairmore of about middle Lower Cretaceous age"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone and coal

• coarse-grained sandstones and coal-bearing beds of the formation in this region, but tracks are in a "very fine-grained, thin-bedded, ripple-marked sandstone matrix"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by McLearn & Sternberg in 1920-1930; reposited in the GSC, TMP

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

• More than 1700 footprint, most preserved in 100 trackways. More than 200 molds collected.

Primary reference: C. M. Sternberg. 1932. Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 68:59-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64387: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 07.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Irenesauripus occidentalis n. sp.
Irenesauripus occidentalis n. sp. Sternberg 1932 theropod
trackway; 4 steps; CMN 8550