Battle Creek Draw (Brule A): Orellan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Miniochoerus affinis (Leidy 1869)
Stevens and Stevens 1996
replaces ID of Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 from "Battle Creek Draw area" Brule Zone A
Miniochoerus battlecreekensis Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
synonym of Miniochoerus affinis
"Battle Creek Draw area" Shannon Co., Brule Zone A
Merycoidodon culbertsoni (Leidy 1848)
original and current combination Merycoidodon culbertsonii
Head of Battle Creek Draw and "between Battle Creek Draw and Battle Creek Canyon"; also "M. culbertsoni osborni" from BCD, head of BCD, E. side of BCD, and between BCD and Battle Creek Canyon; all Brule Zone A; "Paramerycoidodon georgei" Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 BCD Brule Zone A
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Shannon
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 94.3° 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
Formation:Brule Member:Scenic
Local section:BgBad Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Database number:17065
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3069. C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [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]
3068 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1956. Miniochoerinae and Oreonetinae two new subfamilies of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 109(4):373-482 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6270 M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 1996. Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 498-573 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]