ammonites
Mantua Lentil (Paleocene of the United States)

Also known as Locality No. 7

Where: Park County, Wyoming (44.3° N, 109.0° W: paleocoordinates 51.0° N, 86.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Polecat Bench Formation, Puercan (65.5 - 63.3 Ma)

• in a stratigraphically isolated reversed polarity zone interpreted as chron C29r: Butler et al. 1987

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: D. E. Russell. 1967. Le Paleocene continental d'Amerique du nord. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Serie C., Sciences de la Terre 16(2):37-99 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 14808: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997

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