PBDB Collection

Harbicht Hill (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-71203

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.8° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 54.0° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hell Creek Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• 40 feet below the Tullock Formation. The stratigraphic level is said to be 'about the same as Bug Creek Anthills'

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; lithology not reported

• environment given as "floodplain-riparian" at the level of the formation

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: R. E. Sloan and L. Van Valen. 1965. Cretaceous mammals from Montana. Science 148(3667):220-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14741: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

• based on Lofgren et al. 1990 and Lofgren 1995, fauna is mixed; I have sorted out Paleocene and reworked Cretaceous lists based on Lofgren's scheme
"Purgatorius ceratops" type: only a single tooth; Johnston and Fox 1984, Fox 1990, and Buckley 1997 all question this record on the grounds that it is probably a contaminant in the screenwash sample; Van Valen 1994 disagrees

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Mammalia
Primates - Purgatoriidae	Purgatorius ceratops n. sp.² Purgatorius ceratops n. sp.² Van Valen and Sloan 1965 primate
Procreodi - Arctocyonidae	Protungulatum sp.¹, Protungulatum gorgun n. sp.⁴, Protungulatum cf. donnae, "Ragnarok harbichti n. sp." = Baioconodon nordicus¹, Mimatuta morgoth n. sp.⁴, Oxyprimus erikseni n. sp.⁴ Protungulatum sp.¹ Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth several forms, including "M" (="S" of Sloan/Van Valen?), "H," and "E" Protungulatum gorgun n. sp.⁴ Van Valen 1978 condylarth Protungulatum cf. donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth "Ragnarok harbichti n. sp." = Baioconodon nordicus¹ Jepsen 1930 condylarth Mimatuta morgoth n. sp.⁴ Van Valen 1978 condylarth Oxyprimus erikseni n. sp.⁴ Van Valen 1978 condylarth
Cimolesta - Cimolestidae	Procerberus formicarum Procerberus formicarum Sloan and Van Valen 1965 eutherian
Theriamorpha - Marsupialia	Marsupialia indet.¹ Marsupialia indet.¹ marsupial presumably includes "Peradectes" of Sloan and Van Valen 1965
Multituberculata - Eucosmodontidae	Eucosmodontidae indet.¹, "Cimexomys gratus" = Stygimys gratus³, Stygimys kuszmauli³ Eucosmodontidae indet.¹ Jepsen 1940 multituberculate said to be a new genus "Cimexomys gratus" = Stygimys gratus³ Jepsen 1930 multituberculate Stygimys kuszmauli³ Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae	Catopsalis alexanderi³ Catopsalis alexanderi³ Middleton 1982 multituberculate
Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae	Mesodma sp.¹ Mesodma sp.¹ Jepsen 1940 multituberculate

¹Archibald and Clemens 1984; ²Clemens 1974; ³Lofgren 1995; ⁴Van Valen 1978