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), Ti1 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• in a reversed polarity zone interpreted on the basis of biochronology as chron C26r
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the UMMP
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 15026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Phenacodus bisonensis Gazin 1956 condylarth | |
Plesiadapis praecursor Gingerich 1975 primate |