Systematic position of Litomylus (?) alphamon Van Valen (Mammalia: Insectivora): further evidence for the Late Paleocene age of Swan Hills Site-1 in the Paskapoo Formation of Alberta

• Published in: Journal of Paleontology
• Main Author: Gingerich, Philip D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1986
• Subjects: Paleontology; Canada; Valen; Lesser Slave lake; Slave Lake
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s002233600002268x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S002233600002268X

The Swan Hills are erosional remnants of a once-continuous plateau lying between the Athabaska River and Lesser Slave Lake in the north-central part of Alberta, western Canada. Fossils were first discovered in the Paskapoo Formation here in 1964 by L. S. Russell, who described a small mammalian faun...