Slim Buttes Brule D: Orellan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys sp. Leidy 1856
    = Ischyromys typus Leidy 1856
Heaton 1993
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Leptoromys wilsoni n. sp. Tedrow and Korth 1997
Tedrow and Korth 1997
Reva Gap
Pelycomys placidus Galbreath 1953
Korth 1986
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Adjidaumo sp. Hay 1899
Paradjidaumo sp. Burke 1934
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heliscomyidae
Heliscomys vetus Cope 1873
    = Heliscomys senex Wood 1935
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of Korth et al. 1991: "H. sp."; type of H. senex; Korth et al. do not specify a level, but Lillegraven only records Heliscomys from level D
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Rodentia - Allomyidae
Haplomys galbreathi n. sp. Tedrow and Korth 1997
Tedrow and Korth 1997
Reva Gap, Slim Buttes, L-45; probably includes "Prosciurus sp."
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Megalagus sp. Walker 1931
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Geolabididae
Geolabis sp. Cope 1884
    = Centetodon marginalis Cope 1873
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops sp. Matthew 1901
Oligoscalops sp. Reed 1961
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Soricidae
Domnina sp. Cope 1873
    = Domnina gradata Cope 1873
Tedrow 1994
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874
Mammalia - Hypisodontidae
Hypisodus sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx sp. Leidy 1853
    = Leptomerycidae indet. Zittel 1893
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
    = Merycoidodontidae indet. Cook 1912
Alroy 2002
could be Miniochoerus
Leptauchenia sp. Leidy 1856
    = Leptaucheniinae indet. Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
Alroy 2002
see Emry et al. 1987
Mammalia - Leptochoeridae
Leptochoerus sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon sp. Leidy 1856
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Subhyracodon sp. Wood 1927
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Plesictis sp. Pomel 1846
    = Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Alroy 2002
could be Mustelavus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenus sp. Leidy 1853
Mammalia - Carnivora - Palaeogalidae
Palaeogale sp. von Meyer 1846
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Hesperocyon sp. Scott 1890
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon sp. Laizer and Parieu 1838
Mammalia - Leptictidae
Ictops sp. Leidy 1868
    = Leptictidae indet. Gill 1872
Alroy 2002
Mammalia
Peratherium fugax (Cope 1873)
corrected as Herpetotherium fugax
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 - 31.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:SlimB Local bed:4
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:17189
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
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]
1718 M. Green and J. E. Martin. 1976. Peratherium (Marsupialia: Didelphidae) from the Oligocene and Miocene of South Dakota. In C. S. Churcher (ed.), Athlon, Essays on Palaeontology in Honour of Loris Shano Russell: Life Sciences Miscellaneous Publications of the Royal Ontario Museum 155-168 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
2107 W. W. Korth. 1986. Aplodontid Rodents of the Genus Pelycomys Galbreath from the Orellan (Middle Oligocene) of Nebraska . Journal of Mammalogy 67(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3387 A. R. Tedrow. 1994. Insectivores from the Orellan-Whitneyan transition at Reva Gap, Slim Buttes, Harding County, South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 14(3) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3389 A. R. Tedrow and W. W. Korth. 1997. New aplodontid rodents (Mammalia) from the Oligocene (Orellan and Whitneyan) of Slim Buttes, South Dakota. Paludicola 1(2):80-90 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]