McKeever Ranch 1 (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-72210; LACM 3103

Where: Garfield County, Montana (47.6° N, 107.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.0° N, 81.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tullock Formation, Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)

• from the Billy Creek section and definitely in chron C29r: see Archibald et al. 1982, Swisher et al. 1993; the IrZ-Coal is apparently present in the section, although the HFZ-Coal is not, so the date of the IrZ-Coal can be considered a maximum

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coarse channel fill; sandstone

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,

Primary reference: J. D. Archibald. 1982. A study of Mammalia and geology across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in Garfield County, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 122:1-286 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14761: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• appears to postdate list of Archibald and Clemens 1984
Mammalia
 Cimolesta - Cimolestidae
Procerberus cf. grandis2 Middleton and Dewar 2004 eutherian
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
? Periptychidae indet. Cope 1882 condylarth
 Procreodi - Arctocyonidae
"Protungulatum mckeeveri n. sp." = Protungulatum donnae, "Ragnarok nordicum" = Baioconodon nordicus, Mimatuta minuial
"Protungulatum mckeeveri n. sp." = Protungulatum donnae Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth
"Ragnarok nordicum" = Baioconodon nordicus Jepsen 1930 condylarth
Mimatuta minuial Van Valen 1978 condylarth
 Multituberculata - Ptilodontidae
? Kimbetohia mziae3 Middleton and Dewar 2004 multituberculate
Based on Weil (2009, GSA abstract); possibly the new species reported but not described or named by Sloan and van Valen (1965)
Actinopteri
 Teleostei -
Teleostei "indet. U-4"1 Müller 1846
"type U-4"; locality miscited in reference as V2210; correct locality verified in UCMP database for UCMP specimen 230709