Garbani Quarry (UCMP V-73120): Puercan, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Microcosmodontidae
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Microcosmodon harleyi
Weil 1998
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Garfield |
| Coordinates: | 47.6° North, 107.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.9° North, 81.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Puercan | Mammal zone: | Pu3 |
| Age range of interval: | 66 - 63.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | Member: | Tullock |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | silty sandstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,surface (float),sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Metadata
| Database number: | 218652 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-02-24 12:08:34 | Last modified: | 2021-02-24 12:32:12 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-02-24 12:08:34 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3583. | 5% 2100 | A. Weil. 1998. A new species of Microcosmodon (Mammalia: Multituberculata)from the Paleocene Tullock Formation of Montana, and an argument for the Microcosmodontinae. PaleoBios 18(2/3):1-15 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |