Scmenge Point (SMP) (Paleocene of the United States)
Where: McCone County, Montana (47.7° N, 106.2° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 81.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Puercan (66.0 - 63.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: J. K. Rigby, Jr., K. R. Newman, J. Smit, S. Van Der Kaars, R. E. Sloan and J. K. Rigby. 1987. Dinosaurs from the Paleocene part of the Hell Creek Formation, McCone County, Montana. Palaios 2(3):296-302 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14770: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• comments of Lofgren 1995 agree with Sloan et al. 1986, who imply that P. donnae, P. gorgun, and M. morgoth are present in the same channel as Bug Creek West: Sloan et al. 1986
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Protungulatum sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965 condylarth
Mimatuta sp. Van Valen 1978 condylarth | |