Mantua Lentil: Puercan, Wyoming
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Neoplagiaulacidae
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Mesodma ambigua n. sp.
Jepsen 1940
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| see Jepsen 1940 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Taeniolabididae
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Catopsalis alexanderi
Middleton 1982
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Middleton 1982 | |||||||||
| presumably includes "C. foliatus" of Sloan 1981 (5 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Eucosmodontidae
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Stygimys gratus n. sp.
(Jepsen 1930)
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= Cimexomys gratus
Jepsen 1930
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Stygimys gratus | ||||||||||
| includes "C. hausoi" of Archibald et al. 1987 | ||||||||||
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Stygimys kuszmauli
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Lofgren 1995 | |||||||||
| referred specimens of "S. gratus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Peradectes pusillus
(Matthew and Granger 1921)
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= Thylacodon pusillus
Matthew and Granger 1921
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Archibald et al. 1987 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Periptychidae
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Oxyacodon josephi n. sp.
Van Valen 1978
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| (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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= Hemithlaeus josephi
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
| "O. sp." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Oxyprimus putorius
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
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Oxyprimus galadrielae n. sp.
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
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Maiorana noctiluca
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
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Mimatuta minuial n. sp.
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
| includes his type of | ||||||||||
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Loxolophus nordicus n. sp.
Jepsen 1930
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| (3 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Baioconodon nordicus
Jepsen 1930
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "Ragnarok nordicum" of Van Valen 1978; may include "Loxolophus sp." of Russell | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Acreodi
- Triisodontidae
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Eoconodon sp.
Matthew and Granger 1921
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= Eoconodon copanus
Van Valen 1978
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Van Valen 1978 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cimolestidae
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Procerberus sp.
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Archibald et al. 1987 | |||||||||
| two forms according to Lillegraven 1969 | ||||||||||
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= Procerberus cf. formicarum
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Clemens 2017 | |||||||||
| 3 specimens | ||||||||||
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Procerberus cf. grandis
Middleton and Dewar 2004
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Clemens 2017 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Wyoming | County: | Park |
| Coordinates: | 44.3° North, 109.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.1° North, 85.5° 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 | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | ||||
| Local section: | Clark | Local bed: | 1 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: In a stratigraphically isolated reversed polarity zone interpreted as chron C29r: Butler et al. 1987
Earlier literature referred to this as the 'Polecat Bench Formation' | |||||
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: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:originally described by Jepsen 1930 list of Van Valen 1978 is repeated by Archibald et al. 1987 without emendation actual meter level unknown but very close to base of standard Clark's Fork section not clear what "Conacodon sp." of Russell and Jepsen is | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality No. 7 | ||
| Database number: | 14808 | ||
| 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: | 2021-03-16 09:18:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2993. | D. E. Russell. 1967. Le Paleocene continental d'Amerique du nord. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Serie C., Sciences de la Terre 16(2):37-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 963 | J. D. Archibald, W. A. Clemens, P. D. Gingerich, D. W. Krause, E. H. Lindsay and K. D. Rose. 1987. First North American land mammal ages of the Cenozoic era. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 24-76 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 6200 | R. F. Butler, D. W. Krause, and P. D. Gingerich. 1987. Magnetic polarity stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of middle-late Paleocene continental deposits of south-central Montana. Journal of Geology 95(5):647-657 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 62133 | W. A. Clemens. 2017. Procerberus (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) from the Latest Cretaceous and Earliest Paleocene of the Northern Western Interior, US. PaleoBios 34:1-26 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd] | |
| 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] | |
| 2584 | M. D. Middleton. 1982. A new species and additional material of Catopsalis (Mammalia, Multituberculata) from the Western Interior of North America. Journal of Paleontology 56(5):1197-1206 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
| 3485 | L. M. Van Valen. 1978. The beginning of the Age of Mammals. Evolutionary Theory 4:45-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |