Up-Up-The Creek 3 (Reworked) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-87038 (in part)

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.6° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.2° N, 79.2° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: channel lag

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. L. Lofgren. 1995. The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 140:1-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14650: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Leptictida - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops illuminatus Lillegraven 1969 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Batodon tenuis Marsh 1892 eutherian
 Tribosphenida - Alphadontidae
Alphadontidae indet.1 Marshall et al. 1990 metatherian
 Polydolopimorphia - Glasbiidae
Glasbius twitchelli Archibald 1982 metatherian
 Tribosphenida - Pediomyidae
Pediomyidae indet.2 Simpson 1927 metatherian
"Pediomys florencae" = Protolambda florencae Clemens 1966 metatherian
Pediomys elegans Marsh 1889 metatherian
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus robustus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Reptilia
 Theropoda -
cf. Paronychodon lacustris5 Cope 1876 maniraptoran
UCMP 187141
 Theropoda - Dromaeosauridae
Saurornitholestinae indet.4 Longrich and Currie 2009 maniraptoran
UCMP 186959, 186968
Richardoestesia sp.3 Currie et al. 1990 maniraptoran
 Theropoda - Troodontidae
Troodontidae indet.3 Gilmore 1924 maniraptoran
Troodon sp.3 Leidy 1856 maniraptoran