Slim Buttes Brule C: Orellan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Leptictidae
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Ictops sp.
Leidy 1868
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= Leptictidae indet.
Gill 1872
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Nimravidae
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Dinictis sp.
(Leidy 1854)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon sp.
Scott 1890
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Miohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Hyracodontidae
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Hyracodon sp.
Leidy 1856
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Merycoidodon sp.
Leidy 1848
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= Merycoidodontidae indet.
Cook 1912
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
could be Miniochoerus | ||||||||||
Genetochoerus (Osbomohyus) geygani n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
synonym of Merycoidodon bullatus | ||||||||||
"From oreodont faunal "Zone C" of Brule Formation, "35' below Leptauchenia-like nodules," White River drainage, 5 mi. NW. of Slim Butte, Shannon County, South Dakota;" | ||||||||||
Stenopsochoerus berardae n. sp.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1956
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 | |||||||||
synonym of Miniochoerus starkensis | ||||||||||
"From "Zone C" of Brule formation, 2 mi. S. of Reva Gap, E. side of Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Archaeotherium sp.
Leidy 1850
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Mammalia
- Hypisodontidae
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Hypisodus sp.
Cope 1873
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Mammalia
- Hypertragulidae
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Hypertragulus sp.
Cope 1874
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Mammalia
- Leptomerycidae
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Leptomeryx sp.
Leidy 1853
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= Leptomerycidae indet.
Zittel 1893
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Agriochoeridae
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Agriochoerus sp.
Leidy 1850
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Ischyromyidae
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Ischyromys sp.
Leidy 1856
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= Ischyromys typus
Leidy 1856
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Heaton 1993 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Eumys sp.
Leidy 1856
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Scottimus exiguus
(Wood 1937)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus sp.
Leidy 1856
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Harding |
Coordinates: | 45.5° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 46.6° North, 94.7° 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 - 33.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | SlimB | Local bed: | 3 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | surface (float) |
Metadata
Database number: | 17188 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2011-03-27 22:33:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2230. | J. A. Lillegraven. 1970. Stratigraphy, Structure, and Vertebrate Fossils of the Oligocene Brule Formation, Slim Buttes, Northwestern South Dakota. Geological Society America Bulletin 81:831-850 [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] | |
1815 | T. H. Heaton. 1993. The Oligocene Rodent Ischyromys of the Great Plains: Replacement Mistaken for Anagenesis. Journal of Paleontology 67(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
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] | |
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] |