Also known as Blindman River (in part); UA DW-2
Where: Alberta, Canada (52.3° N, 113.8° W: paleocoordinates 58.8° N, 90.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Paskapoo Formation, Ti3 (61.7 - 56.8 Ma)
• "middle Tiffanian" (Fox 1984) or Ti3 (Fox 1988, Scott 2010)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gray, green siltstone and poorly lithified, black, brown shale
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by B. Naylor in 1980
• University of Alberta collection
Primary reference: R. C. Fox. 1984. First North American record of the Paleocene primate Saxonella. Journal of Paleontology 58(3):892-894 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 14992: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anura indet. frog | |
Scapherpeton sp. Cope 1876 salamander | |
Opisthotriton sp. Auffenberg 1961 salamander | |
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Reptilia | |
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia
"Crocodilia indet." = Crocodylia Owen 1842 crocodilian | |
Champsosaurus sp. Cope 1876 choristodere | |
Palaeosaniwa sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
Odaxosaurus sp. Gilmore 1928 squamates | |
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Mammalia | |
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Neoplagiaulax sp., Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni, Neoplagiaulax cf. hunteri, Mesodma pygmaea5, Ectypodus sp.5
Neoplagiaulax cf. hazeni Jepsen 1940 multituberculate
Neoplagiaulax cf. hunteri Simpson 1936 multituberculate
Ectypodus sp.5 Matthew and Granger 1921 multituberculate two forms, both said to be new: probably Mimetodon silberlingi of Fox 1984
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Horolodectes sunae12 Scott et al. 2006 eutherian two forms, both said to be new: one said to be new by Fox 1984
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Presbytherium rhodorugatus n. sp.8
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"Litolestes notissimus" = Litocherus notissimus Simpson 1936 elephant shrew | |
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Melaniella timosa n. sp.4
Melaniella timosa n. sp.4 Fox 1984 placental not clear why this is omitted by Fox 1988 and 1990; eutherian of possible palaeanodont affinities
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Propalaeosinopa albertensis Simpson 1927 placental | |
Litolestes ignotus Jepsen 1930 hedgehog | |
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Carpodaptes hazelae Simpson 1936 primate | |
Saxonella naylori n. sp.7
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Pronothodectes gaoi n. sp.6
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"Micromomys fremdi n. sp." = Foxomomys fremdi5
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Ignacius frugivorus Matthew and Granger 1921 primate | |
Elpidophorus elegans Simpson 1927 colugo | |
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Peradectes elegans Matthew and Granger 1921 marsupial |