Garbage Bed: Middle Campanian - Late Campanian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus major (Russell 1936)
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Hill
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 110.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:56.2° North, 76.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:Senonian
Key time interval: Middle Campanian - Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Montana Formation:Judith River
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Judithian based on fauna
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Degree of concentration:dispersed
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-82225
Database number:14460
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2016-05-18 15:53:34
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2602. M. Montellano. 1992. Mammalian fauna of the Judith River Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian), northcentral Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 136:1-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]