100-million-year-old ancient crocodile tracks uncovered at Teck project in British Columbia’s Peace Region.

发现一个员工在泰克的五重奏Project, south of Tumbler Ridge, has turned out to be one of the finest examples of fossilized crocodilian tracks in the world. Teck Geologist Kevin Sharman already had a string of important fossil discoveries to his credit in the area; however, when he encountered an intriguing series of large rock slabs in April, he knew that what he was looking at was different and special. The discovery was immediately reported to the scientists at the Peace Region Palaeontology Research Centre in Tumbler Ridge.

“有超过100首曲目，几乎所有的都是鳄鱼。大多数足迹都与爪印有关，爪印非常长，代表了在海底行走和游泳的鳄鱼的活动，”不倒翁岭博物馆基金会古生物学馆长理查德·麦克雷说。“这些痕迹外观引人注目，是迄今发现的保存最完好的鳄鱼足迹之一。”

博物馆工作人员开始着手制作四块承轨板的乳胶模具，并拍摄了数百张数码照片来制作高保真的3D电脑模型。然后将乳胶层层涂抹，以便工作人员能够回收霉菌。

The track-bearing rocks are from the coal-bearing Gates Formation and are about 100 million years old. The two larger blocks have surface areas of up to two square metres and a mass of approximately 5,000 kilograms each.

矿山工作人员正计划将这些标本从目前的位置转移到博物馆，在那里它们将被存放在新的收藏大楼中，该大楼专门设计用来存放这些类型的大型和重型标本。

Quintette社区和土著事务高级协调员雷·普劳克斯（Ray Proulx）说：“泰克对我们的炼钢煤炭业务和古生物研究社区之间建立的合作关系感到非常自豪。“我们很高兴为这一重大发现的鉴定和研究提供了便利，这将有助于揭开我们星球历史上的另一个篇章。”

对于这一发现，不倒翁山脊市长唐·麦克弗森（Don McPherson）也评论说：“凯文·沙曼（Kevin Sharman）和不倒翁山脊博物馆基金会（the Tumbler Ridge Museum Foundation）的这一奇妙发现，体现了不倒翁山脊继续与在我们境内运营的行业进行合作。”