Slim Buttes Brule F: Whitneyan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Peltosaurus sp. Cope 1873
ElShafie 2024
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Prosciurus sp. (Matthew 1903)
    = Aplodontidae indet. Brandt 1855
Alroy 2002
Dakotamys pelycomyoides n. sp. Tedrow and Korth 1997
recombined as Dakotallomys pelycomyoides
UCMP V-68159, Backward Butte
Dakotamys lillegraveni n. sp. Tedrow and Korth 1997
recombined as Dakotallomys lillegraveni
Reva Gap; "Pelycomys sp."
Leptoromys wilsoni Tedrow and Korth 1997
Tedrow and Korth 1997
Reva Gap
Mammalia - Rodentia - Allomyidae
Allomys storeri n. sp. Tedrow and Korth 1997
Tedrow and Korth 1997
UCMP V-68159
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Scottimus lophatus Wood 1937
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Agnotocastor sp. Stirton 1935
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heliscomyidae
Heliscomys sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Paradjidaumo sp. Burke 1934
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Megalagus sp. Walker 1931
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Proterix sp. Matthew 1903
    = Proterix loomisi Matthew 1903
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops sp. Matthew 1901
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Soricidae
Domnina sp. Cope 1873
    = Domnina gradata Cope 1873
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Geolabis sp. Cope 1884
    = Centetodon aff. wolffi Macdonald 1965
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenus sp. Leidy 1853
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Dinictis sp. (Leidy 1854)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon sp. Scott 1890
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
    = Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912
Alroy 2002
could be Miniochoerus
Leptauchenia sp. Leidy 1856
    = Leptaucheniinae indet. Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Leptochoeridae
Nanochoerus sp. Macdonald 1955
    = Leptochoeridae indet. Marsh 1894
Alroy 2002
could be Leptochoerus or Stibarus
Leptochoerus sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx sp. Leidy 1853
    = Leptomerycidae indet. Zittel 1893
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Agriochoerus sp. Leidy 1850
Mammalia - Hypisodontidae
Hypisodus sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Perchoerus sp. Leidy 1869
    = Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Ictops sp. Leidy 1868
    = Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Peratherium sp. Aymard 1850
    = Didelphidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Harding
Coordinates: 45.5° North, 103.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:46.5° North, 95.4° 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
Local section:SlimB Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Miniochoerus "nicholsae" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: type, "Brule Zone C" 2 mi S of Reva Gap, E side of Slim Buttes
"Stenopsochoerus berardae" Schultz and Falkenbach 1956: type, "Brule Zone C" 2 mi S of Reva Gap, E side of Slim Buttes
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V68159 (Backward Butte), Reva Gap
Database number:17384
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Modifier:P. Holroyd Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2024-01-08 02:34:00
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
2230. J. A. Lillegraven. 1970. Stratigraphy, Structure, and Vertebrate Fossils of the Oligocene Brule Formation, Slim Buttes, Northwestern South Dakota. Geological Society America Bulletin 81:831-850 [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]
87093 S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
3387 A. R. Tedrow. 1994. Insectivores from the Orellan-Whitneyan transition at Reva Gap, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3389 A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1997. New aplodontid rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) of Slim Buttes, South Dakota. Paludicola 1(2):80-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]