Melville Locality 70: Tiffanian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Tetraclaenodon puercensis
(Cope 1881)
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Thewissen 1990 | |||||||||
| "Tetraclaenodon but possibly Gidleyina" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Wheatland |
| Coordinates: | 46.2° North, 109.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.2° North, 89.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Tiffanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 60.90000 - 56.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | "Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville) |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:"in the No. 3 but of doubtful level" |
Metadata
| Database number: | 15044 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 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:
| 3401 | J. G. M. Thewissen. 1990. Evolution of Paleocene and Eocene Phenacodontidae (Mammalia, Condylarthra). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 29:1-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] |