Monroe Creek (AMNH Rosebud 12): Monroecreekian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Capatanka brachyceps n. sp. (Matthew 1907)
1 specimen
    = Fossorcastor brachyceps Matthew 1907
Alroy 2002
see Matthew 1907;
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Pithecistes altageringensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
    = Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
"Leptauchenia sp."
Promerycochoerus montanus (Cope 1884)
    = Merycochoerus superbus Leidy 1870
Alroy 2002
recombined as Promerycochoerus superbus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Enhydrocyon crassidens n. sp. Matthew 1907
1 specimen
see Matthew 1907
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Shannon
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° North, 96.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Monroecreekian
Age range of interval:26.30000 - 24.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Monroe Creek
Local section:BgBad Local bed:14
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:AMNH
Taxonomic list comments:a.k.a. "3 miles below Porcupine" of early AMNH collection
Metadata
Database number:17547
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-04-21 20:03:51
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2356. J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]