Flat Creek 2 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-73084

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.5° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 54.2° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: J. D. Archibald. 1982. A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 122:1-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14547: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• lower level of Flat Creek section
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae
"? Pediomys cf. florencae" = Protolambda florencae
"? Pediomys cf. florencae" = Protolambda florencae Clemens 1966 metatherian
could also be Eodelphis browni
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
 Avetheropoda -
 Choristodera -
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere