Garbani Quarry (UCMP V-72126) (Paleocene of the United States)

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: Pu3 mammal zone, Tullock Member (Fort Union Formation), Puercan (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, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: J. D. Gardner and D. G. DeMar. 2013. Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:459-515 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 218649: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.02.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Habrosaurus dilatus Gilmore 1928 siren
Lisserpeton bairdi Estes 1965 salamander
 Proteida - Batrachosauroididae
Prodesmodon copei Estes 1964 salamander
Mammalia
 Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Eoconodon nidhoggi2 Van Valen 1978 placental
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
Oxyacodon ferronensis1 Archibald et al. 1983 condylarth