Erickson's Landing (Paleocene of Canada)

Also known as Erikson’s Landing

Where: Alberta, Canada (52.2° N, 113.6° W: paleocoordinates 58.6° N, 90.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 14949: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Philip Mannion

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Taxonomic list

• virtually the same as Joffre Bridge Mammal Site No. 1
same as Fox 1990a
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion cedrus2 Thewissen 1990 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Pantolestoidae
Propalaeosinopa albertensis Simpson 1927 placental
 Dermoptera -
Elpidophorus elegans Simpson 1927 colugo
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis rex Gidley 1923 primate
includes type of P. paskapooensis
Pronothodectes gaoi1 Fox 1990 primate
AMNH specimens