Garbani Channel-NW Main Quarry (UCMP V73082) (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Garbani 14 (UCMP V-73082); UCMP locality V73082

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tullock Member (Fort Union Formation), Pu3 (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

Primary reference: G. P. Wilson Mantilla, S. G. B. Chester, W. A. Clemens, J. R. Moore, C. J. Sprain, B. T. Hovatter, W. S. Mitchell, W. W. Mans, R. Mundil and P. R. Renne. 2021. Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates. Royal Society Open Science 8:210050:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218647: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
Taeniolabis sp.5 Cope 1882 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Peradectidae
Peradectes minor1 Clemens 2006 marsupial
 Theriamorpha - Herpetotheriidae
"Peradectes cf. pusillus" = Thylacodon pusillus1
"Peradectes cf. pusillus" = Thylacodon pusillus1 Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial
 Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Eoconodon nidhoggi2 Van Valen 1978 placental
Eoconodon hutchisoni2 Clemens 2011 placental
 Primates - Purgatoriidae
Purgatorius mckeeveri Wilson Mantilla et al. 2021 primate
UCMP 189505
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Cimolestidae indet.3 Marsh 1889 eutherian
UCMP 189519, 258042, 258043, 192092, 258040
Puercolestes cf. simpsoni3 Reynolds 1936 eutherian
UCMP 258044
Amphibia
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Opisthotriton kayi4 Auffenberg 1961 salamander