Brice Canyon (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: K. D. Rose and D. W. Krause. 1982. Cyriacotheriidae, A New Family of Early Tertiary Pantodonts From Western North America. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 126(1):26-50 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15011: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Cyriacotheriidae
Cyriacotherium argyreum n. sp. Rose and Krause 1982 pantodont