Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.9° N, 102.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 94.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Poleslide Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 17353: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Merycoidodon major Leidy 1853 oreodont |