Sharps (Cedar Pass Stream Channel): Arikareean, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor cf. nebrascensis
(Leidy 1856)
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= Palaeocastor sp.
Leidy 1869
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Tedford et al. 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Proheteromys sp.
Wood 1932
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= Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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Green 1977 | |||||||||
"Plesiosminthus"; misidentification also noted by Martin 1974 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Florentiamyidae
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Hitonkala andersontau
Macdonald 1963
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Nototamias sp.
Pratt and Morgan 1989
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"Tamias": probably the same as "Tamias" from Godsell Ranch Channel, referred to Nototamias by Korth 1992a | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Eusmilus olsontau
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= Eusmilus cerebralis
Cope 1880
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Tedford et al. 1996 | |||||||||
recombined as Hoplophoneus cerebralis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Dinohyus sp.
Peterson 1905
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Hadroleptauchenia shanafeltae
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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= Leptauchenia major
Leidy 1856
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
"channel deposits capping 'Leptauchenia beds' at Cedar Pass"; also "near Cedar Pass"; may include their "Pseudocyclopidius" major from "lower Gering" equivalent "1/4 to 1 mile east of Cedar Pass" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Leptomerycidae
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Leptomeryx sp.
Leidy 1853
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Tedford et al. 1996 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Domnina sp.
Cope 1873
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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? Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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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
Taxonomic list comments:70' above Rockyford Ash closely compared with Godsell Ranch material of Tedford et al. 1996 is definitely from the same locality |
Metadata
Also known as: | Sharps A | ||
Database number: | 17606 | ||
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] | |
1713 | M. Green. 1977. A new species of Plesiosorex Mammalia, Insectivora from the Miocene of South Dakota. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie unde Palaeontologie 1977(4):189-198 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner] | |
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] | |
3386 | R. H. Tedford, C. C. Swisher, D. R. Prothero, S. A. King, and T. E. Tierney. 1996. The Whitneyan-Arikareean transition in the High Plains. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 312-334 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |