Crooked Creek (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Montana (47.7° N, 106.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 79.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by B. Brown in 1907; reposited in the AMNH

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1927. Mammalian Fauna of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. American Museum Novitates 267:1-8 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119007: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 20.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate
AMNH 14410A
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
"Meniscoessus borealis n. sp." = Meniscoessus robustus, Essonodon browni n. gen. n. sp.
"Meniscoessus borealis n. sp." = Meniscoessus robustus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
AMNH 14411 (holotype second left upper molar)
Essonodon browni n. gen. n. sp. Simpson 1927 multituberculate
AMNH 14410 (holotype second lower molar)
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
? Thlaeodon sp. Cope 1892 opossum
AMNH 21988 (broken left lower jaw)
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Ectoconodon montanensis n. sp., "Stagodon sp." = Didelphodon
Ectoconodon montanensis n. sp. Simpson 1927 metatherian
AMNH 14406 (holotype left upper molar)
"Stagodon sp." = Didelphodon Marsh 1889 metatherian
AMNH 14400, 14402, 14403 (teeth)
 Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae
Pediomys sp. Marsh 1889 metatherian
AMNH 14401 (right upper molar)