Son of Burr (TMP locality L2396) (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 143199: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 19.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Chriacus punitor Simpson 1935 condylarth
TMP 2011.090.0002 (Rm1)
 Tribosphenida - Pantolestoidae
Bessoecetor septentrionalis Russell 1929 placental
TMP 2010.098.0001 (RM2)