Bug Creek area (SCNHM) (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.8° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° N, 79.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Sierra College Natural History Museum in 2002

Collection methods: surface (float)

Primary reference: G. P. Wilson, E. G. Ekdale, J. W. Hoganson, J. J. Calede, and A. Vander Linden. 2016. A large carnivorous mammal from the Late Cretaceous and the North American origin of marsupials. Nature Communications 7:13734:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183290: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.12.2016

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon vorax Marsh 1889 metatherian
SCNHM VMMa 20