Bug Creek Anthills (Reworked): Lancian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes
- Rajiformes
- Sclerorhynchidae
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Ischyrhiza avonicola
Estes 1964
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Cook et al. 2014 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UCMP 130665, complete rostral tooth | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolomyidae
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Essonodon browni
Simpson 1927
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Meniscoessus robustus
(Marsh 1889)
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presumably includes "M. borealis" of original Sloan/Van Valen list | ||||||||||
Cimolomys gracilis
Marsh 1889
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Cimolodontidae
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Cimolodon nitidus
Marsh 1889
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Mammalia
- Gypsonictopidae
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Gypsonictops hypoconus
Simpson 1927
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Gypsonictops petersoni
(Simpson 1929)
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synonym of Gypsonictops hypoconus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Zhelestidae
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Alostera saskatchewanensis
Fox 1989
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Fox 1989 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UALVP 6727; not discussed in detail | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Creodonta
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Cimolestes magnus
Clemens and Russell 1965
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recombined as Altacreodus magnus | ||||||||||
accidentally included in collection 14671 through 4/11 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cimolestidae
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Batodon tenuis
Marsh 1892
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Mammalia
- Pediomyidae
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Pediomys elegans
Marsh 1889
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Pediomys krejcii
Clemens 1966
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recombined as Leptalestes krejcii | ||||||||||
Pediomys hatcheri
(Osborn 1898)
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original and current combination Protolambda hatcheri | ||||||||||
Pediomys florencae
Clemens 1966
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recombined as Protolambda florencae | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Stagodontidae
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Didelphodon vorax
Marsh 1889
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Mammalia
- Alphadontidae
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Alphadon marshi
Simpson 1927
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includes "A. wilsoni" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Glasbiidae
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Glasbius sp.
Clemens 1966
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= Glasbius twitchelli
Archibald 1982
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Archibald 1982 | |||||||||
said to be new; presumably list predates this publication | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Groeberida
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Nortedelphys minimus n. gen., n. sp.
Case et al. 2004
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Case et al. 2004 | |||||||||
Alphadon jasoni
Storer 1991
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Storer 1991 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Nortedelphys jasoni | ||||||||||
UALVP 6748 | ||||||||||
Nortedelphys intermedius
Case et al. 2004
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Case et al. 2004 | |||||||||
synonym of Nortedelphys jasoni | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Palatobaena bairdi
Gaffney 1972
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Archibald and Hutchison 1979 | 4 specimens | ||||||||
UCMP 114644 (left maxilla), UCMP 114656 (right quadrate), UCMP 114680 (right and left jaw halves) and UCMP 114686 (left maxilla) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Ceratopsidae
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Ceratopsidae indet.
Marsh 1888
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Triceratops sp.
Marsh 1889
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Hadrosauridae
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Hadrosauridae indet.
Cope 1869
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Theropoda
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Theropoda indet.
Marsh 1881
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Troodontidae
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Troodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
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Paronychodon sp.
Cope 1876
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Database 2005 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Charadriiformes
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Charadriiformes informal indet. sp. 1
Huxley 1867
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Hope 2002 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
ANSP 15868 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | McCone |
Coordinates: | 47.8° North, 106.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 54.4° North, 79.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
Stage: | Maastrichtian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 8 | *Epoch: | Senonian |
Key time interval: | Lancian | ||
Age range of interval: | 70.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Hell Creek | ||
Local section: | Hell Creek mixed faunas | Local bed: | 1 |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Lagerst�tten type: | concentrate |
Degree of concentration: | concentrated |
Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Disassociated major elements: | many |
Disassociated minor elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | anthill,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | UCMP |
Taxonomic list comments:see also Archibald et al. 1987, Swisher et al. 1993;based on Lofgren et al. 1990 and Lofgren 1995, fauna is mixed; I have sorted out Paleocene and reworked Cretaceous lists based on Lofgren's schemewell below the Z-Coal, but correlation is indirect: Fastovsky and Dott 1986 |
Metadata
Also known as: | UCMP V-65127, V-70201 | ||
Database number: | 14516 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano, P. Mannion |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
962. | J. D. Archibald and W. A. Clemens. 1984. Mammal evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary. In W. A. Berggren, J. A. Van Couvering (eds.), Catastrophes and Earth History: The New Uniformitarianism 339-372 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
960 | 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] | |
38165 | J. D. Archibald and J. H. Hutchison. 1979. Revision of the genus Palatobaena (Testudines, Baenidae), with the description of a new species. Postilla 177:1-19 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/P. Holroyd] | |
31410 | J. A. Case, F. J. Goin, and M. O. Woodburne. 2004. "South American" marsupials from the Late Cretaceous of North America and the origin of marsupial cohorts. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 11(3/4):223-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
77911 | T. D. Cook, M. G. Newbrey, D. B. Brinkman and J. I. Kirkland. 2014. Euselachians from the freshwater deposits of the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. In G. P. Wilson, W. A. Clemens, J. R. Horner, J. H. Hartman (eds.), Through the End of the Cretaceous in the Type Locality of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and Adjacent Areas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 503:229-246 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
13103 | U.C.M.P. Database. 2005. UCMP collections database. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano] | |
1535 | R. C. Fox. 1989. The Wounded Knee local fauna and mammalian evolution near the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, Saskatchewan, Canada. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 208(1-3):11-59 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
29037 | S. Hope. 2002. The Mesozoic radiation of Neornithes. In L. M. Chiappe and L. M. Witmer (eds.), Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley 339-388 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] | |
3310 | J. E. Storer. 1991. The mammals of the Gryde Local Fauna, Frenchman Formation (Maastrichtian: Lancian), Saskatchewan. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(3):350-369 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |