Tom's Top (Dawson Creek) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as LSUMG 11; LSUMG V-111; TMM 41400

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.3° N, 103.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 85.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Black Peaks Formation (Tornillo Group), Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• said to be late Puercan based on undescribed species, but Torrejonian by Williamson 1996

•at 160 m level of Mbr., but position relative to Dogie Mountain unclear; most recently, Leslie et al. (2018) have demonstrated a Torrejonian age

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: J. A. Schiebout, C. A. Rigsby, S. D. Rapp, J. A. Hartnell, and B. R. Standhardt. 1987. Stratigraphy of the Cretaceous-Tertiary and Paleocene-Eocene transition rocks of Big Bend National Park, Texas . Journal of Geology 95(3):359-375 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14887: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• the two LSUMG locality numbers appear to refer to the same locality

•two of "three new mammalian taxa" are discussed by Williamson 1996, but not the third

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Habrosaurus sp.2 Gilmore 1928 siren
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi2 Auffenberg 1961 salamander
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Stygimys vastus n. sp.3 Lofgren et al. 2005 multituberculate
 Condylarthra - Hyopsodontidae
Promioclaenus sp.4 Trouessart 1904 condylarth
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.4 Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Theriamorpha - Mixodectidae
Mixodectes malaris Cope 1884 placental
 Primates - Palaechthonidae
Plesiolestes nacimienti1 Wilson and Szalay 1972 primate