Aaron's Locality (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.9° N, 113.3° W: paleocoordinates 58.2° N, 90.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1988. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 6:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

PaleoDB collection 14925: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by K. Christopher Beard

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Taxonomic list

• same as Fox 1990a
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Anconodon gidleyi4 Simpson 1935 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Ectypodus sp.4 Matthew and Granger 1921 multituberculate
Neoplagiaulax donaldorum4 Scott and Krause 2006 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Prochetodon speirsae1 Scott 2004 multituberculate
said to be new
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Ignacius fremontensis Gazin 1971 primate
 Primates - Carpolestidae
 Primates - Picrodontidae
Picrodus canpacius3 Scott and Fox 2005 primate
 Placentalia -
? Creodonta indet. Cope 1875 creodont
 Cimolesta - Pentacodontidae
Bisonalveus cf. browni Gazin 1956 eutherian
 Cimolesta - Cyriacotheriidae
Presbytherium cf. rhodorugatus2 Scott 2010 pantodont