White Buttes (Chadronian): Chadronian, North Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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| "block of dark bentonite from west side of Chalking Buttes, Chadronian (?)" | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
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Trionyx punctiger n. sp.
Cope 1891
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Vitek and Joyce 2015 | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Pantrionychidae | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | North Dakota | County: | Stark |
| Coordinates: | 46.9° North, 102.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 48.2° North, 93.5° 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: | 37.00000 - 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
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17042 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Alroy, P. Mannion |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6226. | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 63467 | N. S. Vitek and W. G. Joyce. 2015. A Review of the Fossil Record of New World Turtles of the Clade Pan-Trionychidae. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 56(2):185-244 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |