Lower Lebo Loc. 9: Torrejonian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon symbolicus Gidley 1935
    = Tetraclaenodon ? puercensis Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
? Mimotricentes sp. Simpson 1937
Claenodon vecordensis n. sp. Simpson 1935
    = Arctocyon montanensis Gidley 1919
Alroy 2002
synonym of Arctocyon corrugatus
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Wheatland
Coordinates: 46.2° North, 109.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:52.9° North, 86.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Paleocene
Stage:Danian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Torrejonian
Age range of interval:63.30000 - 61.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:"Fort Union" (= Lebo)
Local section:Crazy Local bed:830 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:4 specimens
Taxonomic list comments:Tetraclaenodon is an indicator fossil for the Torrejonian
Metadata
Database number:14907
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3144. G. G. Simpson. 1937. The Fort Union of the Crazy Mountain field, Montana and its mammalian faunas. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 169:1-287 [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]