Sheep Ahoy! (Paleocene of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.7° N, 113.9° W: paleocoordinates 58.2° N, 88.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Willow Creek Formation, Pu2 (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• early Paleocene (middle Puercan, Pu2)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone and sandstone

• soft coquina, along with siltstone and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Royal 148 Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in 2008, 2014-2017; reposited in the TMP

Primary reference: C. S. Scott. 2021. First mammal from the Willow Creek Formation: a new early Paleocene ptilodontid (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from near Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 220172: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 10.05.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
 Amiiformes - Amiidae
Amiidae indet. Huxley 1861 bowfin
Amphibia
 Temnospondyli -
Lissamphibia indet. Haeckel 1866 tetrapod
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. Oppel 1811 squamates
 Choristodera - Champsosauridae
Champsosauridae indet. Cope 1876 champsosaur
 Loricata -
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Aenigmamys aries n. gen. n. sp.
Aenigmamys aries n. gen. n. sp. Scott 2021 multituberculate
TMP 2011.096.0771 - holotype