Also known as Blindman River (in part); UA DW-2
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.3° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.8° N, 90.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, Ti3 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• "middle Tiffanian" (Fox 1984) or Ti3 (Fox 1988, Scott 2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, green siltstone and poorly lithified, black, brown shale
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by B. Naylor in 1980
• University of Alberta collection
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1984. First North American record of the Paleocene primate Saxonella. Journal of Paleontology 58(3):892-894 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14992: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
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Odaxosaurus sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
Palaeosaniwa sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
Mammalia | |
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Horolodectes sunae12 Scott et al. 2006 eutherian two forms, both said to be new: one said to be new by Fox 1984
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Propalaeosinopa albertensis Simpson 1927 eutherian | |
Presbytherium rhodorugatus n. sp.8
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"Litolestes notissimus" = Litocherus notissimus Simpson 1936 elephant shrew | |
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Melaniella timosa n. sp.4
Melaniella timosa n. sp.4 Fox 1984 placental not clear why this is omitted by Fox 1988 and 1990; eutherian of possible palaeanodont affinities
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Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930 hedgehog | |
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Elpidophorus elegans Simpson 1927 colugo | |
"Micromomys fremdi n. sp." = Foxomomys fremdi5
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Pronothodectes gaoi n. sp.6
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Saxonella naylori n. sp.7
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Carpodaptes hazelae Simpson 1936 primate | |
Ignacius frugivorus Matthew and Granger 1921 primate | |
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Peradectes elegans Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial | |
Mesodma pygmaea5, Neoplagiaulax sp., Neoplagiaulax cf. hunteri, Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni, Ectypodus sp.5
Neoplagiaulax cf. hunteri Simpson 1936 multituberculate
Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
Ectypodus sp.5 Matthew and Granger 1921 multituberculate two forms, both said to be new: probably Mimetodon silberlingi of Fox 1984
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Amphibia | |
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Opisthotriton sp. Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876 salamander | |
Anura indet. frog |