Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.7° N, 108.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° N, 87.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
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•"late Tiffanian, Croc Tooth Quarry level"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Dyer, R. Witter in 1948
• Princeton University collection
Primary reference: K. D. Rose. 1978. A new Paleocene epoicotheriid (Mammalia), with comments on the Palaeanodonta. Journal of Paleontology 52(3):658-674 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85944: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Amelotabes simpsoni n. gen. n. sp.
Amelotabes simpsoni n. gen. n. sp. Rose 1978 placental |