Medicine Root Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as LACM 2006

Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 95.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper Poleslide Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: 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]more details

PaleoDB collection 17345: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynodesmus thooides Scott 1893 canid
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838 creodont