Elizabeth Creek tracksites: Aptian - Albian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Limiavipedidae
cf. Aquatilavipes curriei McCrea and Sarjeant 2001
McCrea et al. 2014
recombined as Limiavipes curriei
Reptilia
Irenesauripus mclearni Sternberg 1932
McCrea et al. 2014
Reptilia - Iguanodontipodidae
Amblydactylus gethingi Sternberg 1932
McCrea et al. 2014
nomen dubium belonging to Amblydactylus
Reptilia
? Testudinata indet. (Oppel 1811)
McCrea et al. 2014
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:British Columbia
Coordinates: 56.0° North, 122.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.9° North, 67.3° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Key time interval:Aptian - Albian
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Bullhead Mountain Formation:Gething
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: Cadomin Formation is predominately conglomeratic facies
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression,trace
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Associated major elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),field collection,observed (not collected)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Elisabeth Creek
Database number:52590
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:K. Maguire, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2005-08-11 15:08:16 Last modified:2020-10-02 10:21:27
Access level:the public Released:2005-08-11 15:08:16
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:

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]