Slim Buttes Brule E: Orellan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Palaeolagus sp.
Leidy 1856
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Eumys sp.
Leidy 1856
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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
- Eomyidae
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Paradjidaumo sp.
Burke 1934
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Aplodontidae
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Dakotamys lillegraveni
Tedrow and Korth 1997
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probably includes "Prosciurus sp." | ||||||||||
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
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Subhyracodon sp.
Wood 1927
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Poebrotherium sp.
Leidy 1847
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probably P. wilsoni based on Honey et al. 1998 | ||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||
Leptauchenia sp.
Leidy 1856
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= Leptaucheniinae indet.
Schultz and Falkenbach 1940
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see Emry et al. 1987 | ||||||||||
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
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Hesperocyon sp.
Scott 1890
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Domnina sp.
Cope 1873
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= Domnina gradata
Cope 1873
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Tedrow 1994 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Geolabididae
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Centetodon marginalis
(Cope 1873)
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Tedrow 1994 | |||||||||
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
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Peratherium fugax
(Cope 1873)
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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: | 33.9 - 31.8 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | SlimB | Local bed: | 5 |
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: | 17190 | ||
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] | |
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] |