Where: Alberta, Canada (52.2° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 90.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• said to be late Tiffanian (Fox 1988) or "Ti4b or Ti5" (Scott 2010)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; fine-grained siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1988. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 6:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14951: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lainoryctes youzwyshyni n. gen. n. sp.1
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Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 hedgehog | |
? Nyctitheriidae indet. Simpson 1928 placental | |
Ectocion sp. Cope 1882 condylarth | |
Eudaemonema webbi n. sp.4
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Plesiadapis cf. churchilli Gingerich 1975 primate | |
Carpodaptes cf. hazelae Simpson 1936 primate | |
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Ectypodus sp. Matthew and Granger 1921 multituberculate | |
Baiotomeus sp. Krause 1987 multituberculate |