Ross River Block tracksite (140E) (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Also known as Roadside Site, RRB

Where: Yukon, Canada (62.0° N, 132.5° W: paleocoordinates 59.4° N, 77.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 93.5 Ma)

• part of the Ross River Block, orig. assigned to the Tantalus Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: crevasse splay; fine-grained, gray, silty sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected in 1999

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

Primary reference: D. G. F. Long, G. Lowey, and A. R. Sweet. 2001. Age and setting of dinosaur trackways, Ross River area, Yukon Territory (105F/15). In D. S. Edmond & L. H. Weston (eds.), Yukon Exploration and Geology 2000. Exploration and Geological Services Division, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada 181-198 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 67832: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 12.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Iguanodontipodidae
Amblydactylus kortmeyeri Currie and Sarjeant 1979 ornithopod
 Theropoda - Ornithomimipodidae
Ornithomimipus sp. Sternberg 1926 coelurosaur