White Butte (Orellan) (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as Chalky Butte; White Bluffs
DUPLICATE REF 1153 or 1154
Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.6° N, 94.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: lower Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: J. J. Burke. 1934. New Duchesne River Rodents and a Preliminary Survey of the Adjidaumidae. Annals of Carnegie Museum 23:391-398 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 17301: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993
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Taxonomic list
• originally reported by Douglass 1909b and said to be "Middle White River"
collection of Cope is from an indeterminate locality, possible White or Chalk Butte in South Dakota: Douglass 1909b
see Kihm and Lammers 1986
record of Leptodontomys ("Adjidaumo") douglassi is Arikareean according to Korth and Bailey 1992, contra Kihm and Lammers 1986
"Brontotheriidae indet." reported by Lammers and Hoganson 1988 is from the "Chadron" of White Butte "just southeast of South Heart"
collection of Cope is from an indeterminate locality, possible White or Chalk Butte in South Dakota: Douglass 1909b
see Kihm and Lammers 1986
record of Leptodontomys ("Adjidaumo") douglassi is Arikareean according to Korth and Bailey 1992, contra Kihm and Lammers 1986
"Brontotheriidae indet." reported by Lammers and Hoganson 1988 is from the "Chadron" of White Butte "just southeast of South Heart"
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"Prosciurus albiclivus n. sp." = Altasciurus albiclivus3
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"Paradjidaumo cf. trilophus" = Adjidaumo trilophus5
"Paradjidaumo cf. trilophus" = Adjidaumo trilophus5 Cope 1873 rodent "Chalky Buttes, Slope Co."; presumably includes "Gymnoptychus" of Douglass 1909b
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Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit "Palaeolagus": Douglass 1909b DUPLICATE REF 1153 or 1154
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Centetodon marginalis4 Cope 1873 placental 1954 collection from "White or Chalky Buttes, S of Amidon," Slope Co. ND; "Ictops" of Douglass 1909b
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