Biscuit Butte (UCP V73096) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Garbani

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tullock Member (Fort Union Formation), Pu3 (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

Primary reference: W. A. Clemens. 2013. Cf. Wortmania from the early Paleocene of Montana and an evaluation of the fossil record of the initial diversification of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:341-354 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 143205: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 20.04.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Stylinodontidae
cf. Wortmania sp. Hay 1899 taeniodont
UCMP 110539 (lower premolar)
 Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Eoconodon hutchisoni Clemens 2011 placental