McCrea trackway (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as DPP

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 111.5° W: paleocoordinates 58.1° N, 76.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dinosaur Park Formation (Belly River Group), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• ca. 5 m above contact with Oldman Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained, gray sandstone

• "A light gray, fine-grained, horizontally laminated sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace, concretion

Collected by McCrea, Therrien in 2003, 2011; reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: R. T. McCrea, P. J. Currie, and S. G. Pemberton. 2005. Vertebrate ichnology. In P. J. Currie and E. B. Koppelhus (eds.), Dinosaur Provincial Park: A Spectacular Ancient Ecosystem Revealed. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 405-416 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176227: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.02.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
trackway with at least 9 tracks