Joffre Bridge Roadcut Lower Level: Tiffanian, Canada

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
Prochetodon sp. Jepsen 1940
said to be new
Ptilodus sp. Cope 1881
said to be new
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma pygmaea Sloan 1987
Neoplagiaulax sp. Lemoine 1882
said to be new
Neoplagiaulax cf. hunteri (Simpson 1936)
Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni (Jepsen 1940)
Mimetodon silberlingi (Simpson 1935)
Mammalia
Peradectes elegans Matthew and Granger 1921
Mammalia - Dermoptera
Elpidophorus elegans Simpson 1927
Mammalia - Primates - Microsyopidae
Microsyopidae indet. Osborn and Wortman 1892
Mammalia - Primates - Paromomyidae
Ignacius frugivorus Matthew and Granger 1921
Mammalia - Primates - Carpolestidae
Carpodaptes hazelae Simpson 1936
Mammalia - Primates - Picrodontidae
Picrodus sp. Douglass 1908
Scott and Fox 2005
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
Arctocyonidae indet. Murray 1866
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion wyomingensis (Gazin 1956)
    = Ectocion collinus Russell 1929
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Geolabididae
cf. Stilpnodon sp. Simpson 1935
Mammalia - Lipotyphla
Lipotyphla indet. Haeckel 1866
Mammalia - Pantolestidae
Propalaeosinopa albertensis Simpson 1927
Propalaeosinopa septentrionalis (Russell 1929)
    = Bessoecetor septentrionalis Russell 1929
Scott et al. 2002
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
said to be new
Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930
Mammalia - Macroscelidea
Litocherus cf. zygeus Gingerich 1983
Litocherus cf. notissimus (Simpson 1936)
Mammalia - Pantodonta
Pantodonta indet. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Proteutheria - Palaeoryctidae
Palaeoryctidae indet. Winge 1917
Pararyctes pattersoni Van Valen 1966
see common names

Geography
Country:Canada State/province:Alberta
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 113.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:58.6° North, 90.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Tiffanian
Age range of interval: 60.9 - 56.2 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Paskapoo
Local section:Paska Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:same as Fox 1990a
Metadata
Database number:14959
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:40
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1534. R. C. Fox. 1988. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene mammal localities of southern Alberta. Occasional Paper of the Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology 6:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
14679 C. S. Scott and R. C. Fox. 2005. Windows on the evolution of Picrodus (Plesiadapiformes: Primates): morphology and relationships of a species complex from the Paleocene of Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):635-657 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]