Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Brule Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• Lower Oreodon beds
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by G. Baur, M. Farr in 1894 or 1895
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1928. Fossil lizards of North America. Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences 22(3):1-201 [J. Head/J. Head/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 180329: authorized by Paul Barrett, entered by Terri Cleary on 13.07.2016, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Reptilia | |
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Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates Walker Museum no. 391, skull and lower jaws lacking snout, numerous scutella of the throat and neck, portions of the scapular arch nearly in situ
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| Mammalia | |
Archaeotherium wanlessi n. sp.
Archaeotherium wanlessi n. sp. Sinclair 1922 even-toed ungulate | |