Tedrow Quarry D: Puercan, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
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Peradectes pusillus
(Matthew and Granger 1921)
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2 specimens | ||||||
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= Thylacodon cf. pusillus
Matthew and Granger 1921
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Ragnarok nordicum
(Jepsen 1930)
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4 specimens | ||||||
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= Baioconodon nordicus
Jepsen 1930
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mimatuta sp.
Van Valen 1978
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mimatuta morgoth
Van Valen 1978
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Mimatuta minuial
Van Valen 1978
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Oxyprimus erikseni
Van Valen 1978
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12 specimens | ||||||
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Protungulatum donnae
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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5 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Cimolestidae
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Procerberus formicarum
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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33 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Eucosmodontidae
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Stygimys kuszmauli
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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90 specimens | ||||||
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Cimexomys gratus
(Jepsen 1930)
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48 specimens | ||||||
| recombined as Stygimys gratus | |||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma sp.
Jepsen 1940
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440 specimens | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
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Cimexomys minor
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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14 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 | *Local age/stage: | Puercan |
| Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Hell Creek | ||||
| Local section: | Hell Creek mixed faunas | Local bed: | 2 | ||
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Puercan | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),anthill,sieve |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Collection method comments: collection methods: 5 specimens surface, 456 screenwash, and 243 anthill including both Cretaceous and Paleocene taxa | |
| Taxonomic list comments:abundances based on Lofgren et al. 2005 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-87072 (in part) | ||
| Database number: | 14777 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-02-19 16:17:32 |
| 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] |