Also known as Carinalestes type locality
Where: Carbon County County, Montana (45.5° N, 109.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 64.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• Lower unit VII
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. Gaudin in 1996
Collection methods: surface (float)
Primary reference: R. L. Cifelli and B. M. Davis. 2015. Tribosphenic mammals from the Lower Cretaceous Cloverly Formation of Montana and Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e920848:1-18 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 168748: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 28.04.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Carinalestes murensis n. gen. n. sp.
Carinalestes murensis n. gen. n. sp. Cifelli and Davis 2015 mammal OMNH 67503, a left dentary fragment preserving the ultimate molar as well as alveoli and bases of the roots for the penultimate molar.
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