Melville Locality 82: Tiffanian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Phenacodontidae
Tetraclaenodon septentrionalis Thewissen 1990
    = Tetraclaenodon puercensis Cope 1881
Thewissen 1990
"T. cf. puercensis"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Sweetgrass
Coordinates: 45.8° North, 109.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.8° North, 89.1° 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:61.70000 - 56.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:"Fort Union No. 3" (= Melville)
Local section:Crazy Local bed:1880 ft
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:1 specimens
Metadata
Database number:15045
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:

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]