Also known as Bearspaw local fauna; Bow river
Where: Alberta, Canada (51.1° N, 114.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 89.6° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Porcupine Hills Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• Middle Torrejonian (To2)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: channel lag; massive sandstone and claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology; reposited in the TMP
Primary reference: C. S. Scott, D. N. Spivak, and A. R. Sweet. 2013. First mammals from the Paleocene Porcupine Hills Formation of southwestern Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:355-378 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 143200: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.04.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aphronorus fraudator Simpson 1935 eutherian TMP 2010.097.0049 (RP4), TMP 2011.090.0324 (incomplete LP4), TMP 2010.097.0128 (LM2), TMP 2010.097.0119 (RM2), TMP 2010.097.0092 (Lp4), TMP 2011.090.0003 (Rp4), TMP 2010.097.0116 (incomplete Rp4), TMP 2011.090.0320 (Rdp4), TMP 2010.097.0012 (Lm1), TMP 2010.097.0129 and TMP 2010.097.0082 (Rm2)
Aphronorus bearspawensis n. sp. Scott et al. 2013 eutherian TMP 2011.090.0004 - type (LP4); referred specimens: TMP 2011.090.0340 (RM1), TMP 2010.097.0140 and TMP 2011.090.0022 (LM2), TMP 2010.097.0011 (Lp4) and TMP 2010.097.0127 (Lm1 or m2)
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Pronothodectes matthewi Gidley 1923 primate TMP 2011.090.0296 (incomplete left maxilla with M1–2), TMP 2011.090.0297 (RM2) and TMP 2011.090.0002 (Lm2)
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Eudaemonema bohachae n. sp.
Eudaemonema bohachae n. sp. Scott et al. 2013 placental TMP 2011.090.0005 - type (incomplete left dentary with m2); referred specimens: TMP 2011.090.0155 (RP4), TMP 2010.097.0075 and TMP 2011.090.0358 (LM1), TMP 2010.097.0131 and TMP 2011.090.0116 (LM2), TMP 2011.090.0264 (incomplete Rm1) and TMP 2010.097.0052 (Lm3)
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Bessoecetor septentrionalis Russell 1929 placental TMP 2011.090.0265 (LM1) and TMP 2011.090.0187 (Lm2)
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Bryanictis microlestes Simpson 1935 placental TMP 2011.090.0176 (RP4), TMP 2010.097.0035 (RM1) and TMP 2011.090.0321 (incomplete Rm1)
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Chriacus punitor Simpson 1935 condylarth TMP 2011.090.0008 (incomplete LM1) and TMP 2010.097.0103 (Rp4)
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Tetraclaenodon puercensis Cope 1881 condylarth TMP 2010.097.0093 (LDP4) and TMP 2010.097.0006 (incomplete Rdp4)
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Promioclaenus thnetus Scott et al. 2013 condylarth TMP 2010.097.0152 (LP4), TMP 2011.090.0246 , TMP 2011.090.0131 and TMP 2011.090.0309 (RM1), TMP 2011.090.0219 (LM2), TMP 2011.090.0310 (p2), TMP 2011.090.0019 (Rp4), TMP 2011.090.0049 (incomplete left dentary with p2 and incomplete p3), TMP 2011.090.0238 (Lm3), TMP 2011.090.0258 (incomplete Rm3)
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Alopocosmodon hadrus n. gen. n. sp.
Alopocosmodon hadrus n. gen. n. sp. Scott et al. 2013 multituberculate TMP 2011.090.0236 - holotype (RM1); referred specimens: TMP 2011.090.0376 (RP4), TMP 2011.090.0043 and TMP 2010.097.0145 (LM1), and TMP 2011.090.0009 (Rm1)
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Ptilodus wyomingensis Jepsen 1940 multituberculate TMP 2011.090.0025 and TMP 2010.097.0042 (P2 or P3), TMP 2010.097.0121 (LP4), TMP 2011.090.0323 (incomplete LP4), TMP 2011.090.0252 (incomplete P4), TMP 2011.090.0044 (LM1), TMP 2011.090.0001 (incomplete right dentary with p3–4), TMP 2011.090.0128 (incomplete left dentary with P4), TMP 2010.097.0029 and TMP 2011.090.0014 (incomplete LP4), TMP 2011.090.0373 (incomplete Rp4) and TMP 2010.097.0126 (Lm1)
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Parectypodus sinclairi Simpson 1935 multituberculate TMP 2010.097.0019 (LP4), TMP 2011.090.0130 (LP4) and TMP 2011.090.0205 (incomplete LP4)
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