Luck O Hutch: Puercan, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Leptictidae
? Prodiacodon crustulum Novacek 1977
Smith et al. 2018 1 specimen
Mammalia - Cimolestidae
Procerberus sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965
    = Procerberus formicarum Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Smith et al. 2018
1 specimen
Procerberus cf. grandis Middleton and Dewar 2004
Smith et al. 2018 2 specimens
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Periptychidae indet. Cope 1882
Smith et al. 2018 1 specimen
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Protungulatum donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Smith et al. 2018 4 specimens
Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978
Smith et al. 2018 1 specimen
? Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978
    = Mimatuta morgoth Van Valen 1978
Smith et al. 2018
1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae
Cimexomys gratus (Jepsen 1930)
Smith et al. 2018 3 specimens
recombined as Stygimys gratus
Mammalia - Multituberculata
Cimexomys minor Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Smith et al. 2018 1 specimen
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma sp. Jepsen 1940
Mesodma hensleighi Lillegraven 1969
Smith et al. 2018 1 specimen
Mesodma formosa (Marsh 1889)
Smith et al. 2018 11 specimens
Mesodma thompsoni Clemens 1964
Smith et al. 2018 16 specimens
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
Key time interval:Puercan Mammal zone: Pu1
Age range of interval:66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fort Union Member:Tullock
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Taxonomic list comments:one of only two Tullock localities in Lofgren's field area
overlies the MCZ coal, dated by Swisher et al. 1993 at 65.03 +/- 0.04 Ma (SCLF AA on sanidine)
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-88306; V88036
Database number:14759
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2023-08-02 05:07:49
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:

85522 J. R. Claytor, L. N. Weaver, T. S. Tobin and G. P. Wilson Mantilla. 2023. New mammalian local faunas from the first ca. 80 ka of the Paleocene in northeastern Montana and a revised model of biotic recovery from the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e2222777 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
65846 S. M. Smith, C. J. Sprain, W. A. Clemens, D.L. Lofgren, P. R. Renne and G. P. Wilson. 2018. Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA . Geological Society America Bulletin 130(11-12):2000-2014 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Mannion]