Red Owl Quarry (Cretaceous of the United States)

Also known as SDSM V-701

Where: Meade County, South Dakota (44.5° N, 102.3° W: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 76.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Stoneville Member (Fox Hills Formation), Lancian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• "Stoneville facies"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: mesofossils

Reposited in the SDSM

Primary reference: R. W. Wilson. 1983. Late Cretaceous mammals of western South Dakota, 1974. National Geographic Society Research Reports (1971, 1973, or 1974) 15:749-752 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 14612: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

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Taxonomic list

• slightly updated from Wilson 1983
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Gypsonictopidae
Gypsonictops hypoconus Simpson 1927 eutherian
 Theriamorpha - Alphadontidae
Alphadon marshi Simpson 1927 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Pediomyidae
"Pediomys hatcheri" = Protolambda hatcheri, "Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki, "Pediomys cf. krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii
"Pediomys hatcheri" = Protolambda hatcheri Osborn 1898 metatherian
"Pediomys cooki" = Leptalestes cooki Clemens 1966 metatherian
"Pediomys cf. krejcii" = Leptalestes krejcii Clemens 1966 metatherian
 Theriamorpha - Stagodontidae
Didelphodon cf. vorax Marsh 1889 metatherian
 Theriamorpha -
"Alphadon ? lulli" = Protalphadon lulli
"Alphadon ? lulli" = Protalphadon lulli Clemens 1966 metatherian
 Multituberculata - Cimolomyidae
"Meniscoessus greeni" = Meniscoessus robustus
"Meniscoessus greeni" = Meniscoessus robustus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
"n. sp."
 Multituberculata - Taeniolabididae
Bubodens magnus n. gen. n. sp.
Bubodens magnus n. gen. n. sp. Wilson 1987 multituberculate
"n. gen. and sp."
 Multituberculata - Cimolodontidae
Cimolodon nitidus Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata - Neoplagiaulacidae
Mesodma hensleighi Lillegraven 1969 multituberculate
Mesodma ? thompsoni Clemens 1964 multituberculate
Mesodma formosa Marsh 1889 multituberculate
 Multituberculata -
Cimexomys sp. Sloan and Van Valen 1965 multituberculate