Also known as Smoky River Coal Mine
Where: Alberta, Canada (54.0° N, 119.3° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° N, 68.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Grande Cache Member (Gates Formation), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; bioturbated, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace
Reposited in the TMP
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. T. McCrea. 2000. Dinosaur footprints in the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Gates Formation of Alberta, Canada: their use in palaeobiology and palaeoenvironmental interpretation. Y.-N. Lee (ed.), 2000 International Dinosaur Symposium for Kosong County in Korea. Paleontological Society of Korea Special Publication 4:169-178 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 52879: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 25.08.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Tetrapodosaurus borealis Sternberg 1932 ornithopod 2 groups of parallel trackways with several animals in each group
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"Gypsichnites pascensis" = Gypsichnites pacensis
"Gypsichnites pascensis" = Gypsichnites pacensis Sternberg 1932 theropod | |
Columbosauripus ungulatus Sternberg 1932 coelurosaur | |
Irenesauripus mclearni Sternberg 1932 theropod |