Burr (TMP locality L2393) (Paleocene of Canada)

Also known as Bearspaw local fauna

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: terrestrial; massive sandstone and claystone

• Semi-arid conditions
• Caliche and clay clast lags at the base of massively bedded sandstones

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 143198: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Pentacodontidae
Aphronorus bearspawensis
Aphronorus bearspawensis Scott et al. 2013 eutherian
TMP 2010.095.0008 (Lm1)
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus thnetus
Promioclaenus thnetus Scott et al. 2013 condylarth
TMP 2010.095.0020 (RP4), TMP 2010.095.0019 (LM2), TMP 2011.091.0001 (Lm1) and TMP 2010.095.0018 (Rm3)
 Theriamorpha - Mixodectidae
Eudaemonema bohachae
Eudaemonema bohachae Scott et al. 2013 placental
TMP 2010.095.0064 (RM1), TMP 2010.095.0021 (incomplete RM1) and TMP 2010.095.0077 (Lm1)
 Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Stygimys cf. jepseni
Stygimys cf. jepseni Simpson 1935 multituberculate
TMP 2010.095.0058 (Ri1)
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Anconodon cochranensis
Anconodon cochranensis Russell 1929 multituberculate
TMP 2010.095.0006 (incomplete Lp4)