French Creek: Chadronian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotherium sp.
Marsh 1873
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= Brontotheriidae indet.
Marsh 1873
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
may include "Teleodus avus" type of Marsh 1890, according to Lucas and Schoch 1982 from "5 miles west of the Cheyenne River midway between French and Battle Creek" in the lower Chadron | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyracodontidae
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Hyracodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Archaeotherium marshi n. sp.
Troxell 1920
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also reported by Sinclair 1922a and Scott 1940 | ||||||||||
? Megachoerus latidens n. sp.
Troxell 1920
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Scott 1940 | |||||||||
from "Probably upper Brule... Cheyenne River, a few miles E. of Battle Creek, So. Dak." | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Heteromeryx dispar
Matthew 1905
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Wilson 1974 | |||||||||
FMNH specimen from "Battle Creek Breaks, Custer Co." in Ahearn Mbr. | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Subparictidae
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Parictis dakotensis
Clark 1936
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Clark and Guensburg 1972 | |||||||||
recombined as Subparictis dakotensis | ||||||||||
Chadron Fm., Stebbins Ranch between Battle and French Creeks, near Folsom, Custer Co. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Custer |
Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 45.1° North, 94.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Priabonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 3 |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Chadronian | ||
Age range of interval: | 37.20000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:presumably this is in the Badlands "Lower Oligocene"; "north bank of the Cheyenne River between French and Battle creeks"; French Creek is west of Battle Creek Canyon |
Metadata
Database number: | 16969 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3451. | E. L. Troxell. 1920. Entelodonts in the Marsh Collection; Part III. The larger genera and species. American Journal of Science 50(300):431-445 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1238 | J. Clark and T. E. Guensburg. 1972. Arctoid genetic characters as related to the genus Parictis. Fieldiana 26(1):1-71 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
3091 | W. B. Scott. 1940. The mammalian fauna of the White River Oligocene; Part 4, Artiodactyla; Part 5, Perissodactyla. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28(4):363-746 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3663 | J. A. Wilson. 1974. Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group and Buck Hill Group, Trans-Pecos Texas: Protoceratidae, Camelidae, Hypertragulidae. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 23:1-24 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |