North of Medicine Hat (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (50.5° N, 110.3° W: paleocoordinates 57.6° N, 74.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Oldman Formation, Judithian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• "lower Oldman" = Oldman of current usage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1976. Cretaceous mammals (Meniscoessus intermedius, new species, and Alphadon sp.) from the lowermost Oldman Formation, Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 13:1216 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14476: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

• from a single locality about 3.7 m above base of formation
Mammalia
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus intermedius n. sp. Fox 1976 multituberculate
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
"Alphadon praesagus" = Turgidodon praesagus
"Alphadon praesagus" = Turgidodon praesagus Russell 1952 metatherian