Princeton Locs. (Miscellaneous) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Locs. 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 57, 59, 60, 68

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

• coordinate based on political unit

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 15053: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• all between foot levels 2250 and 2325 in Simpson's original section, and most at 2250
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
Anisonchus sectorius Cope 1881 condylarth
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion collinus Russell 1929 condylarth
 Acreodi - Oxyclaenidae
"Oxyclaeninae indet." = Oxyclaenidae
"Oxyclaeninae indet." = Oxyclaenidae Scott 1892 placental
 Cimolesta - Pantolambdidae
Pantolambdidae indet. Cope 1883 pantodont
"suggestive of P. cavirictus but not that species, perhaps not that genus"