Narraway River tracksite (RTMP): Valanginian, Canada
collected by D. F. Stott, P. Currie 1970, 1981
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Dinosauria
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Dinosauria indet.
Owen 1842
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| trackway | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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200 specimens | |||||||||
| footprints | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 54.3° North, 120.1° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 54.0° North, 63.2° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Valanginian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Valanginian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 139.80000 - 132.60000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Minnes | Formation: | Gorman Creek |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | wave ripples sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: single ripple-marked sandstone bedding plane. | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMP | ||
| Collectors: | D. F. Stott, P. Currie | Collection dates: | 1970s, 1981 |
| Collection method comments: More than 200 footprint preserved in at least eight trackways. Much of the vertical wall collapsed before 1991. | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 52589 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | K. Maguire |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-08-11 14:49:06 | Last modified: | 2020-10-01 15:28:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-08-11 14:49:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 14144. | ETE | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 73959 | R. T. McCrea. 2003. Fossil tracks from Tumbler Ridge: a brief history of collaboration between amateurs and academics. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Seventh Annual Symposium 41-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 73960 | R. T. McCrea and L. G. Buckley. 2008. Fossil vertebrate tracks from the Gorman Creek Formation, northeastern B.C. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Twelfth Annual Symposium 37-43 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 73951 | R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, and S. G. Pemberton. 2014. A review of vertebrate track-bearing formations from the Mesozoic and earliest Cenozoic of western Canada with a description of a new theropod ichnospecies and reassignment of an avian ichnogenus. In M. G. Lockley & S. G. Lucas (ed.), Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 60844 | R. T. McCrea, D. H. Tanke, L. G. Buckley, M. G. Lockley, J. O. Farlow, L. Xing, N. A. Matthews, C. W. Helm, S. G. Pemberton and B. H. Breithaupt. 2015. Vertebrate ichnopathology: pathologies inferred from dinosaur tracks and trackways from the Mesozoic. Ichnos 22(3–4):235-260 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |