Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.8° N, 102.1° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 93.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• "at the top of the Chadron formation" and therefore possibly equivalent to the Peanut Peak Member
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by H. H. Krumvieda; reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: H. B. Tordoff and J. R. Macdonald. 1957. A new bird (family Cracidae) from the early Oligocene of South Dakota. Auk 74(2):174-184 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74636: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Procrax brevipes n. gen. n. sp.
Procrax brevipes n. gen. n. sp. Tordoff and Macdonald 1957 fowl |