Mehling Site: Torrejonian, Montana
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Baenidae
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Palatobaena bairdi
Gaffney 1972
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Gaffney 1972 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
| PU 16947 (right maxilla) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Picrodontidae
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Picrodus silberlingi
Douglass 1908
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Scott and Fox 2005 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Plesiadapidae
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Pronothodectes cf. matthewi
Gidley 1923
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Gingerich 1976 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Multituberculata
- Ptilodontidae
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Baiotomeus lamberti
Krause 1987
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Montana | County: | Carter |
| Coordinates: | 45.8° North, 104.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 51.5° North, 80.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Torrejonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 63.80000 - 60.90000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fort Union | Member: | Tongue River |
| Local section: | Medic | Local bed: | 1 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 14876 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, R. Benson | Enterer: | J. Alroy, R. Benson |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2021-11-15 13:41:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1994-04-30 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2160. | D. W. Krause. 1987. Baiotomeus, a New Ptilodontid Multituberculate (Mammalia) from the Middle Paleocene of Western North America . Journal of Paleontology 61(3):595-603 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 704 | E. S. Gaffney. 1972. The systematics of the North American family Baenidae (Reptilia, Cryptodira). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 147(5):245-312 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/R. Benson] | |
| 1635 | P. D. Gingerich. 1976. Cranial Anatomy and Evolution of Early Tertiary Plesiadapidae (Mammalia, Primates). University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 15:1-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion] | |
| 14679 | C. S. Scott and R. C. Fox. 2005. Windows on the evolution of Picrodus (Plesiadapiformes: Primates): morphology and relationships of a species complex from the Paleocene of Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 79(4):635-657 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |