Sharps (LACM 1997): Geringian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Eumys woodi
Macdonald 1963
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Paciculus woodi
Macdonald 1963
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus hypsodus
Schlaikjer 1935
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Nothocyon geismarianus
(Cope 1878)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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= Cormocyon sp.
Wang and Tedford 1992
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Wang and Tedford 1992 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hypertragulidae
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Nanotragulus intermedius
Schlaikjer 1935
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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= Nanotragulus loomisi
Lull 1922
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Shannon |
| Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.1° North, 95.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Geringian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 29.50000 - 24.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Sharps |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | LACM |
| Taxonomic list comments:NISP 12 (including est. 3 Palaeocastor) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17610 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| 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] | |
| 3555 | X. Wang and R. H. Tedford. 1992. The status of genus Nothocyon Matthew, 1899 (Carnivora): an arctoid not a canid. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12(2):223-229 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |