Herpijunk Promontory (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-77129; UCMP V77129; UWBM C1153

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pu1 mammal zone, Tullock Member (Fort Union Formation), Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; pebbly, muddy conglomerate

• 15 cm-thick claypebble conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP, UWBM

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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14743: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
Thylacodon montanensis2 Williamson et al. 2012 marsupial
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Procerberus formicarum2 Sloan and Van Valen 1965 eutherian
Puercolestes simpsoni2 Reynolds 1936 eutherian
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
"Baioconodon nordicum" = Baioconodon nordicus2, "Baioconodon nordicus" = Baioconodon nordicus1, Oxyprimus erikseni2, Mimatuta sp.2
"Baioconodon nordicum" = Baioconodon nordicus2 Jepsen 1930 condylarth
"Baioconodon nordicus" = Baioconodon nordicus1 Jepsen 1930 condylarth
Oxyprimus erikseni2 Van Valen 1978 condylarth
Mimatuta sp.2 Van Valen 1978 condylarth
 Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Stygimys kuszmauli2 Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
? Stygimys kuszmauli2 Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
 Multituberculata -
Cimexomys minor2 Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma sp.2 Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
Mesodma hensleighi2 Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate
Mesodma formosa2 Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Mesodma thompsoni2 Clemens 1964 multituberculate