ammonites
Purgatory Hill (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-71202

Where: McCone County, Montana (47.8° N, 106.1° W: paleocoordinates 53.9° N, 81.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Collins Ranch Member (Tullock Formation), Puercan (65.5 - 63.3 Ma)

• just above the undated Y-Coal in chron 29n: Swisher et al. 1993; Y-Coal per se was not dated, and dated W-Coal is not identifiable in McCone County

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: L. M. Van Valen and R. E. Sloan. 1965. The earliest primates. Science 150(3697):743-745 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14766: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Pat Holroyd and Deborah Weinstein

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