Melville Titanoides Locality (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: Melville Formation, Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• said to be Tiffanian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: E. L. Simons. 1960. The Paleocene Pantodonta. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 50(6):1-81 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
PaleoDB collection 15046: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• NE 1/4 SW 1/4 sec 19 T 5 N R 14 E
this locality was NOT known to Simpson 1937a
"about 2,000 feet above the Scarritt Quarry"
this locality was NOT known to Simpson 1937a
"about 2,000 feet above the Scarritt Quarry"
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Titanoides sp. Gidley 1917 pantodont | |