Also known as Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Quarry (MHBT Quarry), in part
Where: Saskatchewan, Canada (49.5° N, 109.2° W: paleocoordinates 56.2° N, 83.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ravenscrag Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
• upper horizon - once thought to include reworked Cretaceous fossils, but fresh exposures confirm separation of horizons.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fine channel fill; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by P. Johnston in 1979
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1989. The Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 208(1-3):11-59 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14756: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cimexomys minor Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate | |
"Microcosmodontinae indet." = Microcosmodontidae
"Microcosmodontinae indet." = Microcosmodontidae Holtzman and Wolberg 1977 multituberculate | |
Catopsalis foliatus, "Catopsalis cf. joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri
Catopsalis foliatus Cope 1882 multituberculate
"Catopsalis cf. joyneri" = Valenopsalis joyneri Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate | |
"Cimexomys cf. gratus" = Stygimys gratus, "Stygimys cupressus n. sp." = Stygimys kuszmauli
"Cimexomys cf. gratus" = Stygimys gratus Jepsen 1930 multituberculate
"Stygimys cupressus n. sp." = Stygimys kuszmauli Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate includes "S. sp." of Fox 1990, said to be new
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Protungulatum cf. donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth
Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978 condylarth
Baioconodon sp. Gazin 1941 condylarth
Oxyprimus cf. erikseni Van Valen 1978 condylarth | |
? Hyopsodontidae indet. Trouessart 1879 condylarth | |
Procerberus cf. formicarum Sloan and Van Valen 1965 eutherian |