Boulder Gardens tracksite (Cretaceous to of Canada)

Where: British Columbia, Canada (54.9° N, 121.0° W: paleocoordinates 56.4° N, 71.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Walton Creek Member (Boulder Creek Formation), Middle Albian to Middle Albian (109.0 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained sandstone and fine-grained mudstone

• "the original surface on which the tracks were registered was evidently fine- grained, organic-rich sand covered with a fine organic-rich mud drape"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, trace

Collected by C. Lettely in 2005

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 214476: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 02.10.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
  - Paxavipedidae
Paxavipes babcockensis n. gen. n. sp.
Paxavipes babcockensis n. gen. n. sp. McCrea et al. 2015 bird
PRPRC 2005.15.001, trackways A–D
Reptilia
 Theropoda - Ornithomimipodidae
"Irenichnites gracilis" = Ornithomimipus gracilis
"Irenichnites gracilis" = Ornithomimipus gracilis Sternberg 1932 coelurosaur
PRPRC 2005.15.001
 Ichnofossils -
Cochlichnus sp. Hitchcock 1858