UCMP V88046 Coke's Clemmys , Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)


Fundort: UCMP V88046 Coke's Clemmys , Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Montana, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Taxon: Purgatorius coracis aus der Familie Purgatoriidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, The Coke’s Clemmys fossil locality (CC) is ~10.3 m above the top of the MCZ coal and is directly on top of the 2330 coal (Fig.  2). Between the MCZ and the 2330 coal at this locality is ~10 m of alternating siltstone and mudstone ...the 2330 coal, which here is ~0.5 m thick and contains one tephra (bentonite) layer that was sampled for 40Ar/39Ar analysis and dated to 65.802+/- 0.116 Ma., Within a cross-bedded sandstone at the base of the channel deposit. The channel locally cuts down into the 2330 coal
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 63,3 und 66, Millionen Jahre aus der Fort Union Formation in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
Geologie, Sratigraphie Danian / Puercan / Fort Union
Koordinaten: 47° 35 ' 59 '' N, 106° 11 ' 59 '' W

Literatur

S. M. Smith, C. J. Sprain, W. A. Clemens, D.L. Lofgren, P. R. Renne, G. P. Wilson 2018, Early mammalian recovery after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction: A high-resolution view from McGuire Creek area, Montana, USA\r\n. Geological Society America Bulletin. 130:11-12, p. 2000 - 2014, DOI: 10.1130/B31926

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