Caenolambda jepseni Site (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Big Horn County, Wyoming (44.5° N, 108.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.8° N, 85.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)

• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. L. Simons. 1960. The Paleocene Pantodonta. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 50(6):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14895: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• said to be "apparently slightly higher than Rock Bench level... region of the transition from the Rock Bench level to the lowermost Silver Coulee beds" and therefore assigned an ARBITRARY level of 100 feet
NE 1/4 sec 18 T 55 N R 96 W
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Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Pantolambdidae
Caenolambda jepseni n. sp.
Caenolambda jepseni n. sp. Simons 1960 pantodont
"associated fauna" mentioned but not detailed