Y2K Quarry, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA)
| Fundort: | Y2K Quarry, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA), Wyoming, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxon: | Carpolestes dubius aus der Familie Carpolestidae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle: |
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| Macrofossils,mesofossils, From "a thin (2-12 cm) siltstone layer" between Princeton Quarry (680 m level) and Holly's Microsite (1280 m level) and in the "upper part of the Plesiadapis simonsi Zone," which ranges from below 680 m to about 960 m (see Rose 1981); placed at "80 m stratigraphically above Princeton Quarry" (i.e., 760 m) by Secord et al. 2002 , "siltstone" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geschätztes Alter der Fundstelle: |
zwischen 56,8 und 61,7 Millionen Jahre aus der Fort Union Formation in Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Geologie, Sratigraphie | Danian, Selandian, Thanetian / Tiffanian / Fort Union | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Koordinaten: | 44° 17 ' 59 '' N, 109° 0 ' 0 '' W | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Die Daten sowie die folgende Systematik stammen aus der Paleobiology Database, Lizenz
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LiteraturR. Secord 2002, The Y2K Quarry, a new diverse latest Tiffanian (late Paleocene) mammalian assemblage from the Fort Union Formation in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 22:3, p. 105A |
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