AMNH Rosebud 8 ( of the United States)

Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 96.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the AMNH

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 17452: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• Monroe Creek or Harrison
NISP 4 (est.)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Fossorcastor fossor1 Peterson 1905 beaver
 Carnivora - Nimravidae
"Nimravus sectator n. sp." = Nimravus brachyops
"Nimravus sectator n. sp." = Nimravus brachyops Cope 1878 false sabre-tooth
see Matthew 1907
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cormocyon haydeni2 Wang et al. 1999 bone-crushing dog
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Merycochoerus superbus" = Promerycochoerus superbus1, Leptaucheniinae indet.1
"Merycochoerus superbus" = Promerycochoerus superbus1 Leidy 1870 oreodont
Leptaucheniinae indet.1 Schultz and Falkenbach 1940 oreodont