[MM] Procerberus formicarum
Eutherians
DESCRIBER Sloan and van Valen, 1965
TIME Early Paleoceen
Cretaceous Late
Campanian Maastrichtian
CLASS Mammalia
INFRACLASS Eutheria
MAGNORDER Epitheria
SUPERORDER Ferae
ORDER Cimolesta
FAMILY Cimolestidae
FOSSILSITE Ravenscrag Formation, Saskatchewan, Canada
Tullock Formation, Montana, US
INFO
Type species by monotype and a species left in open nomenclature (Johnston & Fox, 1984)
Procerberus formicarum is believed to be an Paleocene element of a mixed assemblage. Its inclusion as a Mesozoic mammal is based on the occurence of Procerberus cf . in what is interpreted as being the Cretaceous part of the Ravenscrag Formation