Banded Silts (Princeton): Orellan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Eporeodon bullatus
(Leidy 1869)
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= Merycoidodon bullatus
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Eumys elegans
Leidy 1856
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Pennington |
| Coordinates: | 43.9° North, 102.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 45.0° North, 94.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Orellan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 33.90000 - 31.80000 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:30' above Lower Nodular Zone; Middle Oreodon of Osborn geographic location unclear, but possibly near the Banded Buttes Overlook in the park |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17061 | ||
| 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:
| 3170. | W. J. Sinclair. 1924. The Faunas of the Concretionary Zones of the Oreodon Beds, White River Oligocene. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 63(1):94-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |