Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.9° N, 108.9° W: paleocoordinates 50.7° N, 88.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation'
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•"about 40 m stratigraphically above Princeton Quarry" (i.e., 720 m): Secord et al. 2002
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. R. Schaff. 1985. National Geographic Society Research Reports 20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 15032: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Pentacosmodon pronus Jepsen 1940 multituberculate | |
Peradectes elegans Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial | |
? Palaeictops sp. Matthew 1899 eutherian | |
Propalaeanodon schaffi n. gen. n. sp.2
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Viverravinae indet. Matthew 1909 carnivoran | |
Thryptacodon sp. Matthew and Granger 1915 condylarth | |
Leptacodon packi Jepsen 1930 placental | |
Pantolestidae indet. Cope 1884 placental | |
Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930 hedgehog | |
Carpolestes dubius Jepsen 1930 primate | |
Plesiadapis fodinatus Jepsen 1930 primate | |
"Diacocherus minutus" = Adunator minutus1
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