Garbani Channel-NW Harley’s High’ (UCMP V73080): Pu3, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Middleton 1983
UCMP
UCMP
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
Simmons 1987
UCMP
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Microcosmodontidae
Weil 1998
UCMP (1 measurement)
Mammalia
Clemens 2006
UCMP
Clemens 2006
UCMP
Mammalia - Primates - Purgatoriidae
Wilson Mantilla et al. 2021
UCMP 157977 - type; hypodigm: UCMP 111586
Clemens 1974
UCMP
Van Valen 1994
UCMP
Mammalia - Periptychidae
Archibald et al. 1983
UCMP
Mammalia - Acreodi - Triisodontidae
Clemens 2011
UCMP
Clemens 2011
UCMP
Mammalia - Cimolestidae
Clemens 2019
UCMP 218979, 258010, 258014, 258019, 288009, 144457, 186647, 218980, 281351, 281352, 281353, 281354, 281355, 281356, 281373, 258012, 258017, 281362, 281363, 281374
Clemens 2019
UCMP 281372, 218909, 218903, 218908
Clemens 2019
UCMP 186460, 258021,258022, 258023, 258025
Mammalia
Clemens 2013
UCMP 156101 (M1 or 2), UCMP 156107 (P4) and UCMP 556806 (medial phalanx).
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Garfield
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.5° North, 67.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Paleocene
Stage: Danian 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 1
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval: Pu3
Age range of interval: 66 - 63.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
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
Also known as:Garbani 13; UCMP V-73080; UCMP locality V73080; Garbani Quarry
Database number:14738
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, S. Peters, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, D. Weinstein, P. Mannion
Modifier:P. Mannion Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2670. M. J. Novacek and W. A. Clemens. 1977. Aspects of intrageneric variation and evolution of Mesodma (Multituberculata, Mammalia). Journal of Paleontology 51(4):701-717 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/D. Weinstein]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
960 J. D. Archibald. 1982. A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 122:1-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
966 J. D. Archibald, R. M. Schoch, and J. K. Rigby, Jr. 1983. A new subfamily, Conacodontinae, and new species, Conacodon kohlbergeri, of the Periptychidae (Condylarthra, Mammalia). Postilla 191:1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
1243 W. A. Clemens. 1974. Purgatorius, an Early Paromomyid Primate (Mammalia). Science 184(4139):903-905 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
19241 W. A. Clemens. 2006. Early Paleocene (Puercan) peradectid marsupials from northeastern Montana, North American Western Interior. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 277:19-31 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
45186 W. A. Clemens. 2011. Eoconodon ("Triisodontidae", Mammalia) from the Early Paleocene (Puercan) of northeastern Montana, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica 14(3) [S. Peters/D. Weinstein/P. Mannion]
46407 W. A. Clemens. 2013. Cf. Wortmania from the early Paleocene of Montana and an evaluation of the fossil record of the initial diversification of the Taeniodonta (Mammalia). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50:341-354 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
75717 W. A. Clemens. 2019. Puercolestes and Betonnia (Cimolestidae, Mammalia) from the early Paleocene (Puercan 3 Interval Zone) of northeastern Montana, U.S.A. PaleoBios 368:1-17 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
65027 J. D. Gardner and D. G. DeMar. 2013. Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 93:459-515 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/M. Carrano]
2585 M. D. Middleton. 1983. Early Paleocene vertebrates of the Denver Basin, Colorado. 1-404 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2662 M. J. Novacek. 1977. A review of Paleocene and Eocene Leptictidae (Mammalia: Eutheria) from North America. PaleoBios 24:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3122 N. B. Simmons. 1987. A Revision of Taeniolabis (Mammalia: Multituberculata), with a New Species from the Puercan of Eastern Montana. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):794-808 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3488 L. M. Van Valen. 1994. The origin of the plesiadapid primates and the nature of Purgatorius. Evolutionary Monographs 15:1-79 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
35835% 2100A. 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]
75725 G. P. Wilson Mantilla, S. G. B. Chester, W. A. Clemens, J. R. Moore, C. J. Sprain, B. T. Hovatter, W. S. Mitchell, W. W. Mans, R. Mundil and P. R. Renne. 2021. Earliest Palaeocene purgatoriids and the initial radiation of stem primates. Royal Society Open Science 8:210050:1-10 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]