Also known as TMM 41366, 41365
Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 35.1° N, 84.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Black Peaks Formation (Tornillo Group), Torrejonian (63.8 - 60.9 Ma)
• 79 - 85 m level of Fm; Torrejonian based on Leslie et al. (2018)
•in a reversed zone interpreted as chron C25r based on the position of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary higher in the section, and just above a single Class I site of normal polarity interpreted as C26n
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by John A. Wilson in 1969; reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: J. A. Schiebout. 1974. Vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology of Paleocene Black Peaks Formation, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 24:1-88 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14956: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Philip Mannion and K. Christopher Beard
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Ptilodus mediaevus Cope 1881 multituberculate | |
Mimetodon silberlingi Simpson 1935 multituberculate
Parectypodus sloani Schiebout 1974 multituberculate
Ectypodus musculus Matthew and Granger 1921 multituberculate | |
Jepsenella sp. Simpson 1940 eutherian | |
? Palaeictops sp. Matthew 1899 eutherian | |
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? Zanycteris sp. Matthew 1917 primate | |
Navajovius kohlhaasae Matthew and Granger 1921 primate | |
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Phenacodus grangeri Simpson 1935 condylarth | |
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Haplaletes disceptatrix Simpson 1935 elephant shrew |