Where: Colorado (39.5° N, 104.7° W: paleocoordinates 45.7° N, 82.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

• Denver Formation (D1 sequence); nine meters stratigraphically above the K–Pg boundary and approximately three meters below DMNH loc. 2557

Environment/lithology: fluvial; sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

• "recovered vertebrate fossils consisted of disarticulated and disassociated hard parts (e.g., teeth, ganoid scales, vertebrae), predominantly ranging between 0.5 mm and 5 mm in size,

•with larger elements and scales up to 1 cm"

Reposited in the DMNH

Primary reference: E.L. Dahlberg, J.J. Eberle, J.J.W. Sertich and I.M. Miller. 2016. A new earliest Paleocene (Puercan) mammalian fauna from Colorado's Denver Basin, U.S.A. Rocky Mountain Geology 51(1):1-22 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 176863: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 05.03.2016

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