Indian Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds): Chadronian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotherium hatcheri n. sp. Osborn 1908
    = Megacerops hatcheri Osborn 1908
Alroy 2002
synonym of Megacerops coloradensis
from "Middle Titanotherium Beds"; placed at Indian Draw by Osborn 1929
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Archaeotherium cf. crassum (Marsh 1873)
Clark 1937
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Heteromeryx dispar n. sp. Matthew 1905
Matthew 1905
from "Middle Titanotherium Beds on Indian Creek... S. Dakota"; see also Patton and Taylor 1973
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Bathornithidae
Bathornis veredus Wetmore 1927
Wetmore 1937
Princeton specimen collected by G. L. Jepsen in 1929 from "Middle Titanothere (Chadron) deposits... on Indian Creek"
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:37.20000 - 33.90000 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]