PBDB Collection

Put's Plunder (UCMP V-81234): Middle Campanian, Montana
collected by W. Clemens et al. 1980-1981

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae

	Lepisosteus occidentalis (Leidy 1856)	Database 2005	1 element
Mammalia - Multituberculata

	Multituberculata indet. Cope 1884	Montellano 1992
	"Cimexomys or Mesodma"

	Cimexomys judithae Sahni 1972	Montellano 1992	2 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae

	Mesodma informal large sp. Jepsen 1940	Montellano 1992
	large

	Mesodma informal small sp. Jepsen 1940	Montellano 1992
	small

	Mesodma primaeva (Lambe 1902)	Montellano 1992	3 specimens
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae

	Cimolomys cf. clarki Sahni 1972	Montellano 1992	1 specimen

	Meniscoessus major (Russell 1936)	Montellano 1992	24 specimens
Mammalia

	Theria indet. Parker and Haswell 1897	Montellano 1992
Mammalia - Alphadontidae

	Alphadon halleyi Sahni 1972	Montellano 1992	46 specimens

	Alphadon praesagus (Russell 1952)	Montellano 1992	2 specimens

	Alphadon russelli Fox 1979	Montellano 1992	14 specimens
Mammalia - Stagodontidae

	Eodelphis sp. Matthew 1916	Montellano 1992	6 specimens
Mammalia - Pediomyidae

	Pediomys clemensi Sahni 1972	Montellano 1992	4 specimens
Mammalia

	Paranyctoides sp. Fox 1979	Montellano 1992	1 specimen
	= Avitotherium sp. Cifelli 1990	Nessov et al. 1998
	= Eutheria indet. Huxley 1880	Montellano et al. 2013
	UCMP 131245

	Paranyctoides maleficus Fox 1984	Montellano 1992	1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Adocidae

	Adocus sp. Cope 1868	Database 2005	1 specimen
Reptilia - Ankylosauridae

	Ankylosauridae indet. Brown 1908	Database 2005	1 specimen
Reptilia - Hadrosauridae

	Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869	Database 2005	2 specimens
Reptilia - Theropoda

	Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881	Database 2005	1 specimen
Reptilia

	Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758	Database 2005	1 specimen
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae

	Dromaeosauridae indet. Colbert and Russell 1969	Database 2005	1 specimen

	Saurornitholestes sp. Sues 1978	Database 2005	5 specimens
see common names

Country:	United States	State/province:	Montana	County:	Hill
Coordinates:	48.9° North, 110.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	59.0° North, 66.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:	unpublished field data
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Period:	Cretaceous	Epoch:	Late Cretaceous
Stage:	Campanian	10 m.y. bin:	Cretaceous 7
*Epoch:	Senonian
Key time interval:	Middle Campanian
Age range of interval:	83.6 - 72.1 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Geological group:	Montana	Formation:	Judith River	Member:	McClelland Ferry
Local section:	Kenne	Local bed:	1
Local order:	bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:	bed
Stratigraphy comments: base of a series of cyclical deposits within the "Foremost" formation; probably McClelland Ferry Mbr. Judithian based on fauna

Primary lithology:	shelly/skeletal,green mudstone
Secondary lithology:	coal
Includes fossils?	Y
Environment:	mire/swamp

Modes of preservation:	body
Lagerst�tten type:	concentrate
Degree of concentration:	concentrated
Size of fossils:	mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:	good
Associated major elements:	some
Disassociated major elements:	many
Disassociated minor elements:	many

Collection methods:	bulk,selective quarrying,mechanical,sieve,field collection
Collection size:	104 specimens
Rock censused:	1000 kg
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:	UCMP
Collectors:	W. Clemens et al.	Collection dates:	1980-1981
Taxonomic list comments:underlies "Marker A Coal"SCLF AA dates of 79.5 +/- 0.2 Ma (biotite) and 78.5 +/- 0.2 Ma (sanidine) for ash less than 2 meters below quarry: Goodwin and Deino 1989; biotite date is considered the result of alterationNISP 104

Database number:	14482
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion	Enterer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	2002-05-15 00:00:00	Last modified:	2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:	the public	Released:	2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC0

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
13103		U.C.M.P. Database. 2005. UCMP collections database. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
45805		M. Montellano, R. C. Fox, and C. S. Scott. 2013. Species Composition of the Late Cretaceous Eutherian Mammal Paranyctoides Fox. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
2649		L. A. Nessov, J. D. Archibald, and Z. Kielan-Jaworowska. 1998. Ungulate-like mammals from the Late Cretaceous of Uzbekistan and a phylogenetic analysis of Ungulatomorpha. Bulletin of Carnegie Museum of Natural History 34:40-88 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Benson]