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
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 | |
Paxavipes babcockensis n. gen. n. sp.
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Reptilia | |
"Irenichnites gracilis" = Ornithomimipus gracilis
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Cochlichnus sp. Hitchcock 1858 |