Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.6° N, 102.7° W: paleocoordinates 44.8° N, 94.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• "'Metamynodon sandstone,' a channel sand in the lowest Brule Formation [= Scenic Member] located just below the lower nodular layer"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: M. W. Colbert. 2005. The facial skeleton of the early Oligocene Colodon (Perissodactyla, Tapiroidea). Palaeontologia Electronica 8(1):1-27 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68719: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 04.02.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Colodon occidentalis Leidy 1868 tapir |