Where: Custer County, South Dakota (43.8° N, 102.8° W: paleocoordinates 45.1° N, 93.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• ""Lower Oligocene, upper levels of Titanotherium beds"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. S. Riggs in 1898; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: B. Patterson. 1931. Occurrence of the alligatoroid genus Allognathosuchus in the Lower Oligocene. Field Museum of Natural History Geological Series 4(6):223-226 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 99708: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.11.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
"Allognathosuchus riggsi n. sp." = Alligator prenasalis
"Allognathosuchus riggsi n. sp." = Alligator prenasalis Loomis 1904 alligator |