UCMP V86083 (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as Claw Butte Anthill No. 3

Where: Carter County, Montana (45.8° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 52.2° N, 78.7° W)

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When: Lancian mammal zone, Hell Creek Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: J. P. Hunter and J. D. Archibald. 2002. Mammals from the end of the age of dinosaurs in North Dakota and southeastern Montana, with a reappraisal of geographic differentiation among Lancian mammals. Geological Society of America Special Paper 361:191-216 [C. Boyd/C. Boyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172642: authorized by Clint Boyd, entered by Clint Boyd on 14.08.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
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Mammalia indet. Linnaeus 1758 mammal
 Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae
"Pediomys florencae" = Protolambda florencae, "Pediomys hatcheri" = Protolambda hatcheri, "Pediomys krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii, "Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki
"Pediomys florencae" = Protolambda florencae Clemens 1966 metatherian
"Pediomys hatcheri" = Protolambda hatcheri Osborn 1898 metatherian
"Pediomys krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii Clemens 1966 metatherian
"Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki Clemens 1966 metatherian
 Polydolopimorphia - Glasbiidae
Glasbius twitchelli Archibald 1982 metatherian
Glasbius cf. twitchelli Archibald 1982 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
Alphadon marshi Simpson 1927 metatherian
 Theriamorpha -
Protalphadon lulli Clemens 1966 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops sp. Simpson 1927 eutherian
Gypsonictops hypoconus Simpson 1927 eutherian
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma hensleighi Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate
Mesodma formosa Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Mesodma thompsoni Clemens 1964 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus robustus Marsh 1889 multituberculate