Trochu (KUA-23) (Cretaceous of Canada)

Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Scollard Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; bentonitic, black claystone

• "black, bentonitic layer"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by D. L. Eastcott in 1967

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: J. A. Lillegraven. 1969. Latest Cretaceous mammals of upper part of Edmonton Formation of Alberta, Canada, and review of marsupial-placental dichotomy in mammalian evolution. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 50:1-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14635: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Creodonta -
"Cimolestes magnus" = Altacreodus magnus
"Cimolestes magnus" = Altacreodus magnus Clemens and Russell 1965 creodont
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon vorax Marsh 1889 metatherian