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
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 | |
Baiotomeus cf. russelli Scott et al. 2002 multituberculate
Ptilodus wyomingensis Jepsen 1940 multituberculate | |
Catopsalis kakwa n. sp.
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
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Promioclaenus thnetus Scott et al. 2013 condylarth | |
Eudaemonema bohachae Scott et al. 2013 placental |