Falling Creek tracksite (Cretaceous of Canada)

Also known as Chetwynd

Where: British Columbia, Canada (55.6° N, 121.8° W: paleocoordinates 57.3° N, 69.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gates Formation (Fort St. John Group), Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collected by Western Coal & PRPRC in 2011

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 214475: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Theropoda -
Irenesauripus sp. Sternberg 1932 theropod
 Ornithischia - Tetrapodosauridae
Tetrapodosaurus borealis Sternberg 1932 ornithopod