West of Sheep Mountain (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.8° N, 102.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 94.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: White River Formation, Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

• lower Oreodon Beds

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. J. ElShafie. 2024. Body size estimation from isolated fossil bones reveals deep time evolutionary trends in North American lizards. PLoS ONE 19(1:e0296318):1-25 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 232916: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 08.01.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Squamata -
Peltosaurus granulosus Cope 1873 squamates
YPM PU 16812