KU-SD-002 (Eocene to of the United States)

Where: Custer County, South Dakota (43.7° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 94.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: White River Group, Chadronian to Chadronian (37.2 - 33.3 Ma)

• Stated by authors as, "Based on other material collected with it, KUVP 2568 is most likely latest Eocene (Chadronian NALMA), but may be earliest Oligocene (Orellan NALMA)"

• group-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone

• "This specimen was collected from the tan siltstone floodplain deposits of the White River Group

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1894

Primary reference: T. J. Meehan and L. D. Martin. 2012. New large leptictid insectivore from the Late Paleogene of South Dakota, USA. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(3):509-518 [C. Boyd/C. Boyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154199: authorized by Clint Boyd, entered by Clint Boyd on 31.01.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Leptictidae
Megaleptictis altidens
Megaleptictis altidens Meehan and Martin 2012 eutherian