Cub Creek/Hunt Creek PU Section 28 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Carbon County, Montana (45.2° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.1° N, 88.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lebo Member (Fort Union Formation), Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: R. F. Butler, D. W. Krause, and P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of middle-late Paleocene continental deposits of south-central Montana. Journal of Geology 95(5):647-657 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15019: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• level relative to other localities unknown
said to be To3 or Ti1
Mammalia
 Primates -
Plesiadapiformes indet. Simons and Tattersall 1972 primate
"Pronothodectes jepi or Nannodectes intermedius"; this appears to be the specimen described by Gingerich 1976 as P. cf. jepi