Fr-1 (Paleocene of Canada)

Also known as Frenchman-1

Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.1° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 83.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Frenchman Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green siliciclastic sediments

• "dark, gray-green deposits"

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: P. A. Johnston. 1980. First record of Mesosoic mammals from Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 17:512-519 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14737: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• see note regarding reworked Cretaceous list; possible Cretaceous material: Mesodma sp. Cimolestes cf. incisus Storer 1991: "C. cf. cerberoides"
list repeated by Fox 1990
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
may be Cretaceous
 Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
"Catopsalis cf. joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri1
"Catopsalis cf. joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri1 Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
UALVP 22760
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
 Placentalia -
Condylarthra indet.1 Cope 1881 placental
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
? Periptychidae indet.1 Cope 1882 condylarth
UALVP 22673
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Protungulatum cf. donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Cimolestes cf. incisus3 Marsh 1889 eutherian
may be Cretaceous
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Scapherpeton sp.2 Cope 1876 salamander