Grassy Lake tracksite (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (49.8° N, 111.7° W: paleocoordinates 57.2° N, 76.9° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Foremost Formation (Belly River Group), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• 2 m above coal seam

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; coarse-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression, trace

Reposited in the TMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• Another six negative and positive poorly perserved footprints were observed in immediate area.

Primary reference: P. J. Currie. 1989. Dinosaur footprints of western Canada. In D. D. Gillette and M. G. Lockley (eds.), Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 293-300 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52647: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 15.08.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid
TMP 79.9.2