Ekalaka (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Fallon County, Montana (46.3° N, 104.5° W: paleocoordinates 52.6° N, 78.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. A. Clemens. 1973. Fossil mammals of the type Lance Formation, Wyoming. Part III. Eutheria and summary. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 94:1-102 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 14532: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• a revised list prepared by Archibald has not been published
text of Clemens et al. 1979 is ambiguous, but the Powder River Basin list they report probably pertains to the Powderville Post Office list (see)
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Essonodon sp.2 Simpson 1927 multituberculate
Meniscoessus robustus1 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Cimolomys sp.2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon sp.2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma sp.2 Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
 Creodonta -
"Cimolestes magnus" = Altacreodus magnus
"Cimolestes magnus" = Altacreodus magnus Clemens and Russell 1965 creodont
"Hell Creek Formation near Ekalaka... Carter County, Montana"