Where: Alberta, Canada (51.1° N, 114.2° W: paleocoordinates 58.3° N, 89.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, To2 (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• "Age diagnostic taxa have yet to be discovered" but mammal fauna " argues for a middle Torrejonian age (Protoselene opisthacus/Mixodectes pungens Interval Zone [To2] of Lofgren et al., 2004)"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; poorly lithified, black, brown siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. S. Scott in 2002, 2009
• UALVP and RTMP collections
Primary reference: R. C. Fox, C. S. Scott, and B. D. Rankin. 2010. Edworthia lerbekmoi, a new primitive paromomyid primate from the Torrejonian (early Paleocene) of Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 84(5):868-878 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99007: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 25.10.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Edworthia lerbekmoi n. gen. n. sp.
Edworthia lerbekmoi n. gen. n. sp. Fox et al. 2010 primate | |
Ptilodus montanus Douglass 1908 multituberculate |