Black Spring Coulee S: Puercan, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys minor Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Cimexomys gratus (Jepsen 1930)
recombined as Stygimys gratus
Stygimys kuszmauli Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978
Ragnarok nordicum (Jepsen 1930)
    = Baioconodon nordicus Jepsen 1930
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Cimolestidae
Procerberus formicarum Sloan and Van Valen 1965
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:McCone
Coordinates: 47.8° North, 106.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.0° North, 80.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary *Local age/stage:Puercan
Key time interval:Puercan
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hell Creek
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Puercan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:reworked Meniscoessus robustus is present
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-87030
Database number:14669
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:39
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2255. D. L. Lofgren. 1995. The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 140:1-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]