Up-Up-The Creek 1A (Reworked): Lancian, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops illuminatus Lillegraven 1969
Mammalia - Alphadontidae
Alphadon sp. Simpson 1927
    = Alphadontidae indet. Marshall et al. 1990
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon vorax Marsh 1889
Mammalia - Glasbiidae
Glasbius twitchelli Archibald 1982
Mammalia - Pediomyidae
Pediomys hatcheri (Osborn 1898)
original and current combination Protolambda hatcheri
Pediomys florencae Clemens 1966
recombined as Protolambda florencae
Mammalia - Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
Meniscoessus robustus (Marsh 1889)
Reptilia - Dinosauria
Dinosauria indet. Owen 1842
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia - Theropoda
Theropoda indet. Marsh 1881
Database 2005 1 specimen
Reptilia - Dromaeosauridae
Richardoestesia sp. Currie et al. 1990
Database 2005 2 specimens
Reptilia
cf. Paronychodon lacustris Cope 1876
Sankey 2008 1 specimen
nomen dubium belonging to Paronychodon
UCMP 186913
Reptilia - Ornithischia
Ornithischia indet. Seeley 1888
Database 2005 1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:McCone
Coordinates: 47.6° North, 106.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:54.2° North, 79.2° West
Basis of coordinate:unpublished field data
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:72.10000 - 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:channel lag
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:many
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:occasional
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:UCMP
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-87035 (in part)
Database number:14647
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-04-12 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-02-19 16:56:01
Access level:the public Released:1997-04-12 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2255. D. L. Lofgren. 1995. The Bug Creek problem and the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition at McGuire Creek, Montana. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 140:1-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
13103 U.C.M.P. Database. 2005. UCMP collections database. University of California Museum of Paleontology [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
34479ETE J. T. Sankey. 2008. Diversity of latest Cretaceous (late Maastrichtian) small theropods and birds: teeth from the Lance and Hell Creek formations, USA. In J. T. Sankey & S. Baszio (ed.), Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography. Indiana University Press, Bloomington 117-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]