2 miles upstream from Gething's mine, Peace River Canyon: Albian, Canada
collected by McLearn & Sternberg 1920-1930
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Ornithomimipodidae
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Irenichnites gracilis n. gen., n. sp.
Sternberg 1932
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| recombined as Ornithomimipus gracilis | ||||||||||
| CMN 8552, 8558 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Gypsichnites pacensis n. gen., n. sp.
Sternberg 1932
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2 individuals | |||||||||
| CMN 8553, 8554 | ||||||||||
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Irenesauripus mclearni n. gen., n. sp.
Sternberg 1932
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1 individual | |||||||||
| trackway, 16 steps; CMN 8548, 8557, 8559-8563 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Canada | State/province: | British Columbia |
| Coordinates: | 56.0° North, 122.2° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 57.7° North, 70.0° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Albian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Bullhead Mountain | Formation: | Gething | ||
| Local section: | Peace River | Local bed: | 290 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 290 feet above Grant seam; correlated with "lower Blairmore of about middle Lower Cretaceous age" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | coal |
| Lithology description: coarse-grained sandstones and coal-bearing beds of the formation in this region. | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression,trace |
| Degree of concentration: | -single event |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | life position |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | medium |
| Associated major elements: | all |
| Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),peel or thin section,observed (not collected) | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | GSC | ||
| Collectors: | McLearn & Sternberg | Collection dates: | 1920-1930 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 64386 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-09-07 06:40:18 | Last modified: | 2021-09-03 13:55:05 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-09-07 06:40:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18574. | ETE | C. M. Sternberg. 1932. Dinosaur tracks from Peace River, British Columbia. National Museum of Canada Bulletin 68:59-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 77956 | P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus. 2015. The significance of the theropod collections of the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to our understanding of Late Cretaceous theropod diversity. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 52(8):620-629 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
| 24189 | ETE | C. R. Harington, H. Foster, R. Holmes and P. J. Currie. 2005. Photographic catalogue of trackways in the Canadian Museum of Nature / Catalogue photographique de pistes au Musée canadien de la nature. Syllogeus 74:1-151 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
| 75723 | F. H. McLearn. 1923. Peace River Canyon coal area, B.C. Geological Survey of Canada, Summary Report 1922(Part B):1-46 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |