Teepee Mountain (Eocene to of the United States)

Also known as RAM V2016017

Where: Montana (45.0° N, 111.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 51.8° N, 94.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Duchesnean to Duchesnean (39.7 - 33.9 Ma)

• "The Teepee Mountain stratigraphic section contains late Duchesnean-early Chadronian vertebrates and is capped by a meter-thick basalt with an 40Ar/39Ar whole rock age of 32.38 +/- 0.64 Ma (Luikart, 1997)."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; siltstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: D. Lofgren, D. Hanneman, J. Bibbens, L. Gerken, F. Hu, A. Runkel, I. Kong, A. Tarakji, A. Helgeson, I. Gerard, R. Li, S. Li, and Z. Ji. 2020. Eocene and Oligocene mammals from the Gravelly Range of Southwest Montana. Paludicola 12(4):263-297 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 230862: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 24.07.2023

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Diplobunops matthewi Peterson 1919 agriochoerid
AMNH 145523
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys douglassi Black 1968 rodent
AMNH 145522; RAM 25137, 23638
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Paradjidaumo disjunctus Korth 2013 rodent
AMNH 145524
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856 rabbit
AMNH 145529
Megalagus cf. brachyodon Matthew 1903 rabbit
AMNH 145521