Rockyford (Lower Brule): Orellan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Daphoenus sp.
Leidy 1853
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Hunt 1998 | |||||||||
| "Scenic Member... 7-8 miles N of Rockyford" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon gregarius
(Cope 1873)
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| 7 mi N of Rocky Ford in top of Middle Oreodon beds; 8 mi N of Rocky Ford in base and top of Middle Oreodon beds | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Otionohyus bullatus
Leidy 1869
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
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= Merycoidodon bullatus
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "8 mi. N. of Rockyford" Brule Zone B | ||||||||||
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Hadroleptauchenia eiseleyi
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
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= Leptauchenia decora
Leidy 1856
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "Zone B... 8 mi. N. of Rockyford" | ||||||||||
| 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 | |||
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 |
| Taxonomic list comments:Wounded Knee field area is just south of Rocky Ford | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17169 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1996-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1996-08-05 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:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1977 | R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] |