Put's Plunder (UCMP V-81234) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Hill County, Montana (48.9° N, 110.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 76.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: McClelland Ferry Member (Judith River Formation), Middle Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• base of a series of cyclical deposits within the "Foremost" formation; probably McClelland Ferry Mbr. Judithian based on fauna

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; shelly/skeletal, green mudstone and coal

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by W. Clemens et al. in 1980-1981; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, mechanical, sieve,

Primary reference: W. A. Clemens and M. B. Goodwin. 1985. Vertebrate paleontology of the Judith River Formation, Montana. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1980-1983) 21:71-78 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14482: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• underlies "Marker A Coal"SCLF AA dates of 79.5 +/- 0.2 Ma (biotite) and 78.5 +/- 0.2 Ma (sanidine) for ash less than 2 meters below quarry: Goodwin and Deino 1989; biotite date is considered the result of alterationNISP 104
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus occidentalis1 Leidy 1856 gar
Mammalia
 Allotheria -
Multituberculata indet.2 Cope 1884 multituberculate
"Cimexomys or Mesodma"
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
"Mesodma primaeva" = Filikomys primaevus2 Lambe 1902 multituberculate
Mesodma "large sp."2 Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
large
Mesodma "small sp."2 Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
small
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus major2 Russell 1936 multituberculate
Cimolomys cf. clarki2 Sahni 1972 multituberculate
 Multituberculata -
Cimexomys judithae2 Sahni 1972 multituberculate
 Tribosphenida -
Theria indet.2 Parker and Haswell 1897 mammal
Eutheria indet.3 eutherian
Paranyctoides maleficus2 Fox 1984 eutherian
 Tribosphenida - Alphadontidae
Alphadon halleyi2, "Alphadon praesagus" = Turgidodon praesagus2, "Alphadon russelli" = Turgidodon russelli2
Alphadon halleyi2 Sahni 1972 metatherian
"Alphadon praesagus" = Turgidodon praesagus2 Russell 1952 metatherian
"Alphadon russelli" = Turgidodon russelli2 Fox 1979 metatherian
 Tribosphenida - Pediomyidae
"Pediomys clemensi" = Protolambda clemensi2
"Pediomys clemensi" = Protolambda clemensi2 Sahni 1972 metatherian
 Tribosphenida - Stagodontidae
Eodelphis sp.2 Matthew 1916 metatherian
Reptilia
 Testudines - Adocidae
Adocus sp.1 Cope 1868 turtle
 Theropoda -
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Dromaeosauridae indet.1 Colbert and Russell 1969 maniraptoran
Saurornitholestes sp.1 Sues 1978 maniraptoran
Aves
  -
Aves indet.1 Linnaeus 1758 bird
Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Ankylosauridae
Ankylosauridae indet.1 Brown 1908 ankylosaurid
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet.1 Cope 1869 hadrosaurid