Zagas Quarry (TMP locality L2391) (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.2° N, 114.0° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 89.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Porcupine Hills Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• Middle or Late Torrejonian (To2 or To3)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siltstone

• greenish to somber gray, fine-grained siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in 2007; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: C. S. Scott, A. Weil, and J. M. Theodor. 2018. A new, diminutive species of Catopsalis (Mammalia, Multituberculata, Taeniolabidoidea) from the early Paleocene of southwestern Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 92(5):896-910 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 194573: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 22.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Baiotomeus cf. russelli Scott et al. 2002 multituberculate
Ptilodus wyomingensis Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
Catopsalis kakwa n. sp. Scott et al. 2018 multituberculate
TMP 2012.024.0063 - type; referred material: TMP 2011.110.0073, TMP 2012.024.0225, TMP 2012.024.0207, TMP 2009.133.0129, TMP 2014.043.0027, TMP 2009.131.0001, TMP 2009.133. 0114 and TMP 2009.133.0041
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus thnetus Scott et al. 2013 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Mixodectidae
Eudaemonema bohachae Scott et al. 2013 placental