Monroe Creek (AMNH Rosebud 12): Monroecreekian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Capatanka brachyceps n. sp.
(Matthew 1907)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Fossorcastor brachyceps
Matthew 1907
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see Matthew 1907; | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Pithecistes altageringensis
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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= Leptauchenia decora
Leidy 1856
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
"Leptauchenia sp." | ||||||||||
Promerycochoerus montanus
(Cope 1884)
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= Merycochoerus superbus
Leidy 1870
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Promerycochoerus superbus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Enhydrocyon crassidens n. sp.
Matthew 1907
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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] |