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

Also known as PMA Site 15

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)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; coarse-grained sandstone and ferruginous, carbonaceous claystone

• "water covered mud on the edge of a sandbar"
• coarse-grained sandstones and coal-bearing beds of the formation in this region. Tracks preserved in a "clay ironstone". Mud described as "very organic."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by McLearn & Sternberg, Currie in 1920-1930, 1976-1979; reposited in the GSC

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

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 64390: 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
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Amblydactylus gethingi n. gen. n. sp.
Amblydactylus gethingi n. gen. n. sp. Sternberg 1932 ornithopod
CMN 8555