Where: Alberta, Canada (51.8° N, 113.0° W: paleocoordinates 59.5° N, 84.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scollard Formation, Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by J. Lillegraven in 1967
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ), sieve
Primary reference: J. A. Lillegraven. 1969. Latest Cretaceous mammals of upper part of Edmonton Formation of Alberta, Canada, and review of marsupial-placental dichotomy in mammalian evolution. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions 50:1-122 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 14634: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889 multituberculate | |
Ptilodontidae indet. Cope 1887 multituberculate specimen 3739; provenance of additional specimen 3304 not specified
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Mesodma hensleighi Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate
Mesodma formosa Marsh 1889 multituberculate
Mesodma thompsoni Clemens 1964 multituberculate | |
Cimolomys gracilis Marsh 1889 multituberculate | |
"Alphadon rhaister" = Turgidodon rhaister Clemens 1966 metatherian | |
"Pediomys krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii, Pediomys elegans
"Pediomys krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii Clemens 1966 metatherian
Pediomys elegans Marsh 1889 metatherian | |
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Gypsonictops illuminatus Lillegraven 1969 eutherian | |
"Cimolestes cerberoides" = Ambilestes cerberoides
"Cimolestes cerberoides" = Ambilestes cerberoides Lillegraven 1969 eutherian |