Indian Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds): Chadronian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Bathornithidae
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Bathornis veredus
Wetmore 1927
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Wetmore 1937 | |||||||||
| Princeton specimen collected by G. L. Jepsen in 1929 from "Middle Titanothere (Chadron) deposits... on Indian Creek" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Heteromeryx dispar n. sp.
Matthew 1905
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Matthew 1905 | |||||||||
| from "Middle Titanotherium Beds on Indian Creek... S. Dakota"; see also Patton and Taylor 1973 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Archaeotherium cf. crassum
(Marsh 1873)
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Clark 1937 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Brontotheriidae
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Brontotherium hatcheri n. sp.
Osborn 1908
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= Megacerops hatcheri
Osborn 1908
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from "Middle Titanotherium Beds"; placed at Indian Draw by Osborn 1929 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Shannon |
| Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.6° North, 93.7° 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 - 33.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Chadron |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:relationship of unit to members of Clark and Beerbower 1967 unclear | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 16978 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2700. | H. F. Osborn. 1908. New or little known titanotheres from the Eocene and Oligocene. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24(32):599-617 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 64781 | J. Clark. 1937. The stratigraphy and paleontology of the Chadron formation in the Big Badlands of South Dakota. Annals of the Carnegie Museum 25:261-351 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] | |
| 2463 | W. D. Matthew. 1905. Notice of two new genera of mammals from the Oligocene of South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 21(3):21-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 34265 | A. Wetmore. 1937. The tibiotarsus of the fossil bird Bathornis veredus. Condor 39(6):256-257 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |