Cochrane 1 (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.1° N, 114.5° W: paleocoordinates 57.6° N, 92.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paskapoo Formation, Ti1 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Previously erroneously attributed to the Porcupine Hills Formation; earliest Tiffanian (Ti1)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 1926, 2009; reposited in the TMP

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

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14938: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano and Philip Mannion

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• same as Fox 1990a
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli - Albanerpetontidae
Albanerpeton sp.1 Estes and Hoffstetter 1976 tetrapod
"Paskapoo species"
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Anconodon cochranensis Russell 1929 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Horolodectidae
Ferrequitherium sweeti2 Scott 2019 eutherian
TMP 2013.011.0404, 2014.023.0011, 2014.023.0096 and 2015.070.0110
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Ignacius glenbowensis4 Scott et al. 2023 primate
TMP 2017.035.0052, 2013.011.0016, 2015.070.0081, 2013.011.0349, 2014.023.0086, 2013.011.0480, 2011.108.0002, 2013.011.0449, 2013.011.0494
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis sp.2 Gervais 1877 primate
cf. Plesiadapis praecursor2 Gingerich 1975 primate
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion collinus n. sp. Russell 1929 condylarth
 Cimolesta - Pantolestidae
Bessoecetor septentrionalis3 Russell 1929 eutherian