Little Badlands (Brule Zone A): Orellan, North Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Poebrotherium wilsoni
Leidy 1847
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Prothero 1996 | |||||||||
| "Little Badlands, Stark Co. ... early Orellan" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodon culbertsoni
(Leidy 1848)
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii | ||||||||||
| "lower part of the Nodular Zone, south of Southheart"; includes their "M. culbertsoni osborni" from "7-10 mi. S. of South Heart" and "Otionohyus wardi" from 7 mi. S of South Heart, both Brule Zone A | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
| secs 13 and 14, T138N R98W multiple specimens from 5 - 20 ft "above base of nodules" and 4 - 10 ft "above White Marker Layer" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eutypomyidae
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Eutypomys hibernodus n. sp.
Korth 2000
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| "10 feet above base of nodules; 7 miles south of South Heart" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Dakota | County: | Stark |
| Coordinates: | 46.9° North, 102.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.0° North, 94.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Orellan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 31.80000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:F:AM locality from a restricted area "Eutypomys thomsoni" Wahlert 1977: "7 miles south of South Heart, Stark Co." and "Little Badlands, Stark Co."; "Orellan," level not indicated; definitely not the same specimen as E. hibernodus type of Korth 2000b "Leptomeryx evansi" Heaton and Emry 1996: Little Badlands, ND, level not indicated | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17128 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2141. | W. W. Korth. 2000. A new species of Eutypomys Matthew (Rodentia, Eutypomyidae) from the Orellan (Oligocene) and reevaluation of “Eutypomys” magnus Wood. Paludicola 2(4):273-278 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 2805 | 5% 6280 | D. R. Prothero. 1996. Camelidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 609-651 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
| 3069 | 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] | |
| 6226 | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |