White Site (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Carter County, Montana (45.8° N, 104.4° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 83.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tiffanian (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: P. D. Gingerich. 1976. Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 15:1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]more details

PaleoDB collection 15002: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• overlies Medicine Rocks Site 1
Mammalia
 Primates - Plesiadapidae
Plesiadapis anceps Simpson 1936 primate
 Theriamorpha - Phenacodontidae
Ectocion cedrus Thewissen 1990 condylarth
Phenacodus magnus Thewissen 1990 condylarth