Monroe Creek (LACM 1862): Monroecreekian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Grangerimus sp. Wood 1936
1 specimen
    = Pleurolicus sp. Cope 1878
Rensberger 1973
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Palaeocastor simplicidens (Matthew 1907)
1 specimen
    = Fossorcastor fossor Peterson 1905
Alroy 2002
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:LACM
Metadata
Database number:17549
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-04-21 20:03:51
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 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]
6267 J. M. Rensberger. 1973. Pleurolicine rodents (Geomyoidea) of the John Day Formation, Oregon, and their relationships to taxa from the early and middle Miocene, South Dakota. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 102:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]