Melville Locality 82: Tiffanian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Phenacodontidae
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Tetraclaenodon septentrionalis
Thewissen 1990
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= Tetraclaenodon puercensis
Cope 1881
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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] |