Melville Locality 15 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Sweetgrass County, Montana (45.8° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 89.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1937. The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

PaleoDB collection 15039: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• "level uncertain but is above the basal sandstone of the No. 3 beds"
Mammalia
 Primates - Paromomyidae
Paromomys maturus Gidley 1923 primate