Dunvegan
Description
Source: Wikipédia
The Dunvegan Formation is a stratigraphic unit of Cenomanian age in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin.
It takes the name from the settlement of Dunvegan, Alberta, and was first described in an outcrop on Peace River near Dunvegan by George Mercer Dawson in 1881.
Découvertes
Source: The Paleobiology Database
Site(s) correspondant(s) à cette formation: 5
Pouce Coupe River tracksite : Alberta - ? 9716 14144 31125 73951 Along Pouce Coupe River approx. 3 km downstream from the mouth of Doe River- Dunvegan Bridge, Peace River : Alberta - ? 51129 89032 Based on Fairview location. Approximately 4 km upstream of the Dunvegan Bridge along the Peace River
- east/south bank, Pine River near Murray River : British Columbia - ? 73874 89032 E/S bank of Pine River, ca. 1.6 km downstream from junction with Murray River
- Wolverine River tracksite : Alberta - ? 73951 73959 two sites along banks of Wolverine River, near Tumbler Ridge
- Lone Prairie tracksite : British Columbia - ? 73951 tracks found along creeks in the area of Lone Prairie
Publication(s)
La base comprend 8 publication(s).
Source: The Paleobiology Database
- ↑1 2 P. J. Currie. 1989. Dinosaur footprints of western Canada. Dinosaur Tracks and Traces. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
- ↑1 R. T. McCrea, M. G. Lockley, and C. A. Meyer. 2001. Global distribution of purported ankylosaur track occurrences. The Armored Dinosaurs, K. Carpenter (ed.), Indiana University Press, Bloomington
- ↑1 M. Lockley, T. J. Logue, and J. J. Moratalla, A. P. Hunt, R. J. Schultz, J. W. Robinson. 1995. The fossil trackway Pteraichnus is pterosaurian, not crocodilian: implications for the global distribution of pterosaur tracks. Ichnos 4:7-20 (https://doi.org/10.1080/10420949509380110)
- ↑1 2 3 4 R. T. McCrea, L. G. Buckley, and A. G. Plint, P. J. Currie, J. W. Haggart, C. W. Helm, 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. Fossil Footprints of Western North America. New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 62:5-94
- ↑1 2 M. E. Burns and M. J. Vavrek. 2014. Probable ankylosaur ossicles from the Middle Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation of northwestern Alberta, Canada. PLoS One 9(5):e96075 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0096075)
- ↑1 2 E. G. Cross and V. M. Arbour. 2024. An ankylosaur femur from the mid-Cretaceous of the Peace Region of northeastern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 61(6):678–685 (https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2023-0118)
- ↑1 2 V. M. Arbour, D. Larson, and M. J. Vavrek, L. Buckley, D. Evans. 2020. An ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cenomanian DunveganFormation of northeastern British Columbia, Canada. Fossil Record 23:179-189 (https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-23-179-2020)
- ↑1 2 R. T. McCrea. 2003. Fossil tracks from Tumbler Ridge: a brief history of collaboration between amateurs and academics. Alberta Palaeontological Society, Seventh Annual Symposium
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