Also known as N. Y. U. locality 2NNlb

Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.7° N, 102.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 49.2° N, 85.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• "Titanotherium Beds... probably less than ten feet lower than the base of the Oreodon Beds"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by L. A. Mannhardt and H. E. Wood in 1923

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• found "weathered out on top" of a butte

•specimen reposited in the NYU collection

Primary reference: H. E. Wood. 1927. Hoplophoneus mentalis, and cusp homologies in cats. Journal of Mammalogy 8(4):296-302 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 83881: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.09.2008

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