Slim Buttes Brule C: Orellan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Ictops sp. Leidy 1868
    = Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Dinictis sp. (Leidy 1854)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon sp. Scott 1890
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
    = Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912
Alroy 2002
could be Miniochoerus
Genetochoerus (Osbomohyus) geygani n. sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
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
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
Archaeotherium sp. Leidy 1850
Mammalia - Hypisodontidae
Hypisodus sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx sp. Leidy 1853
    = Leptomerycidae indet. Zittel 1893
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Agriochoeridae
Agriochoerus sp. Leidy 1850
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys sp. Leidy 1856
    = Ischyromys typus Leidy 1856
Heaton 1993
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Scottimus exiguus (Wood 1937)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856
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]