Harris Ranch Unit D: Whitneyan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Oxetocyon sp. Green 1954
Hesperocyon sp. Scott 1890
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
? Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon nebraskensis (Leidy 1850)
    = Hyracodon leidyanus Troxell 1921
Prothero 1996
Mammalia - Leptochoeridae
Leptochoerus sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Miniochoerus cf. cheyennensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
    = Miniochoerus cf. starkensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Alroy 2002
? Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
small
? Merycoidodon cf. bullatus (Leidy 1869)
Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856
includes "L. cf. harveyi"
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Perchoerus sp. Leidy 1869
    = Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Leptochoerinae indet.
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Hypertragulus cf. calcaratus (Cope 1873)
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx cf. lenis Cook 1934
    = Leptomeryx cf. evansi Leidy 1853
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops tertius Reed 1961
Mammalia - Soricidae
Domnina gradata Cope 1873
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Proterix sp. Matthew 1903
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Megalagus turgidus (Cope 1873)
Palaeolagus haydeni Leidy 1856
? Palaeolagus intermedius Matthew 1899
Palaeolagus burkei Schlaikjer 1935
Mammalia - Rodentia - Florentiamyidae
Proheteromys nebraskensis Wood 1937
recombined as Kirkomys nebraskensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Rodentia - Allomyidae
? Haplomys sp. Miller and Gidley 1918
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Prosciurus sp. (Matthew 1903)
    = Aplodontidae indet. Brandt 1855
Alroy 2002
? Prosciurinae indet. Wilson 1949
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eutypomyidae
Eutypomys sp. Matthew 1905
    = Eutypomyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heliscomyidae
? Heliscomys sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia
Herpetotherium cf. fugax (Cope 1873)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Fall River
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 95.7° 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:Whitneyan
Age range of interval:31.80000 - 29.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:Whitney
Local section:HarRn Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:17338
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3163. W. F. Simpson. 1985. Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota. Dakoterra 2(2):303-333 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
6272 D. R. Prothero. 1996. Hyracodontidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 652-663 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]