Mammal Quarry No. 5 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Lance Quarry 5, Lull's Locality 5, Hatcher No. 5

Where: Niobrara County, Wyoming (43.1° N, 104.6° W: paleocoordinates 49.6° N, 79.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lance Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by J. B. Hatcher in 1889; reposited in the YPM

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: O. C. Marsh. 1889. Discovery of Cretaceous Mammalia. Part II. American Journal of Science and Arts, series 3 38:177-180 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14587: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
  -
Mammalia indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 mammal
"genus novum"
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
"Cimolomys nitidus" = Cimolomys gracilis2, "Cimolomys digona n. sp." = Cimolomys gracilis, "Dipriodon robustus" = Meniscoessus robustus2
"Cimolomys nitidus" = Cimolomys gracilis2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
"Cimolomys digona n. sp." = Cimolomys gracilis Marsh 1889 multituberculate
"Dipriodon robustus" = Meniscoessus robustus2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Allacodon sp.2, Allacodon lentus n. sp., "? Allacodon pumilis" = Allacodon pumilus2
Allacodon sp.2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Allacodon lentus n. sp. Marsh 1889 multituberculate
"? Allacodon pumilis" = Allacodon pumilus2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops hypoconus1 Simpson 1927 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
"Didelphodon comptus" = Delphodon comptus2, Telacodon laevis n. gen. n. sp.3, Cimolestes incisus2
"Didelphodon comptus" = Delphodon comptus2 Marsh 1889 eutherian
Telacodon laevis n. gen. n. sp.3 Marsh 1892 eutherian
Cimolestes incisus2 Marsh 1889 eutherian
Actinopteri
 Acanthomorphata - Sciaenidae
Platacodon sp.2 Marsh 1889