Sharps (Below Cedar Pass Stream Channel): Arikareean, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Enhydrocyon geringensis
(Barbour and Schultz 1935)
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= Sunkahetanka geringensis
Barbour and Schultz 1935
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
| "Cedar Pass... Jackson County, in a channel about 40-50 ft above a prominent white ash, Sharps Formation" | ||||||||||
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Archaeocyon leptodus
(Schlaikjer 1935)
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
| "East side of Cedar Pass, clay lens in capping channel, base of upper part of the Sharps Formation... Jackson County" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor nebrascensis
(Leidy 1856)
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= Palaeocastor sp.
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| see Xu 1996; from 25' below channel, i.e., 45' above RFA | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Jackson |
| Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 101.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.3° North, 96.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4-5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Key time interval: | Arikareean | ||
| Age range of interval: | 29.50000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | BgBad | Local bed: | 10 |
| Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Also known as: | Sharps A | ||
| Database number: | 17605 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2728. | D. C. Parris and M. Green. 1969. Dinohyus (Mammalia: Entelodontidae) in the Sharps Formation, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 43(5):1277-1279 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 6226 | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |