Cedar Pass (Barren Clays) (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Jackson County, South Dakota (43.5° N, 101.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: lower Poleslide Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: 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]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17315: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• at the far eastern end of the Badlands
level unclear: Cynarctoides lemur Wang et al. 1999: "Cedar Pass, ? Poleslide Member... UCMP loc. V7228"
based on paleomag of Prothero and Swisher 1992, the Upper Oreodon zone is in a normal zone here and a reversed zone near the type area at Sheep Mountain Table, where the same normal zone falls within the AMNH "Protoceras Beds"
level unclear: Cynarctoides lemur Wang et al. 1999: "Cedar Pass, ? Poleslide Member... UCMP loc. V7228"
based on paleomag of Prothero and Swisher 1992, the Upper Oreodon zone is in a normal zone here and a reversed zone near the type area at Sheep Mountain Table, where the same normal zone falls within the AMNH "Protoceras Beds"
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"Mesocyon" temnodon Wortman and Matthew 1899 canid 0.25 mi W of Cedar Pass and near top of Cedar Pass, both from top of Upper Oreodon beds; 3 mi W of Cedar Pass, in base of Upper Oreodon beds
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Perchoerus cf. probus2 Leidy 1856 peccary "upper Oreodon beds... vicinity of Cedar Pass, near Interior in Jackson County"; said to "probably" be this species
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