Junior Oil Company Beard No. 1 (Paleocene of the United States)

Where: Caddo County, Louisiana (32.8° N, 94.0° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 75.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. G. Simpson. 1932. A new Paleocene mammal from a deep well in Louisiana. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 82(2):1-4 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14857: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• actually in Caddo "Parish"
possibly from the Cretaceous Tokio Fm. but age of specimen is unquestionably Paleocene
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Periptychidae
Anisonchus fortunatus n. sp. Simpson 1932 condylarth