Scmenge Point (SMP): Puercan, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Procreodi
- Arctocyonidae
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Mimatuta sp.
Van Valen 1978
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Lofgren 1995 | ||||||
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Protungulatum sp.
Sloan and Van Valen 1965
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Lofgren 1995 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | McCone |
| Coordinates: | 47.7° North, 106.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 53.9° North, 81.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Altitude: | 685 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Puercan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 63.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:comments of Lofgren 1995 agree with Sloan et al. 1986, who imply that P. donnae, P. gorgun, and M. morgoth are present in the same channel as Bug Creek West: Sloan et al. 1986 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14770 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2005-08-19 10:57:26 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2908. | J. K. Rigby, Jr., K. R. Newman, J. Smit, S. Van Der Kaars, R. E. Sloan and J. K. Rigby. 1987. Dinosaurs from the Paleocene part of the Hell Creek Formation, McCone County, Montana. Palaios 2(3):296-302 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 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] |