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)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1937. Additions to the Upper Paleocene fauna of the Crazy Mountain field. American Museum Novitates 940 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 15070: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
"1000 feet... above the Scarritt Quarry," i.e., 4350 foot level in Simpson's CMB section
said to be "correlative" with Princeton Loc. 13 by Gingerich 1996, but this refers only to stratigraphic position
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Titanoides gidleyi Jepsen 1930 pantodont | |