SC-249 (Paleocene to of the United States)

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.2° N, 88.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fort Union Formation, Tiffanian to Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

• Rose, 1981: "SC-249 are northeast of the others and are possibly latest Tiffanian in age"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

Primary reference: K. D. Rose. 1981. The Clarkforkian Land-Mammal Age and Mammalian Faunal Composition Across the Paleocene-Eocene Boundary. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 26:1-197 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 15211: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Will Clyde and Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• level unknown
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Phenacodus intermedius3 Granger 1915 condylarth
 Dinocerata - Prodinoceratidae
Probathyopsis harrisorum2 Patterson 1939 uintathere
Reptilia
 Loricata -
"Leidyosuchus formidabilis" = Borealosuchus formidabilis1
"Leidyosuchus formidabilis" = Borealosuchus formidabilis1 Erickson 1976 crocodilian