Harris Ranch Unit C: Whitneyan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
Herpetotherium sp. Cope 1873
"A"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon nebraskensis (Leidy 1850)
    = Hyracodon leidyanus Troxell 1921
Prothero 1996
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Entelodontidae indet. Lydekker 1883
Mammalia - Hypisodontidae
Hypisodus sp. Cope 1873
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Leptomeryx cf. lenis Cook 1934
    = Leptomeryx cf. evansi Leidy 1853
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
? Merycoidodon sp. Leidy 1848
small: said to be new
? Merycoidodon cf. bullatus (Leidy 1869)
Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856
includes "L. cf. harveyi"; may include "Pithecistes tanneri" and L. decora of Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 from "7 miles northwest of Slim Butte" in "Brule Zone D"; L. decora from "5 mi. NW. of Slim Butte"; also their Brule D specimen from "Little Bad Lands, near Oelrichs"
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon cf. horridus Leidy 1853
"cf. cruentus" - not clear why Mellett 1977 is contradicted by this i.d.
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
? Nimravidae indet. Cope 1880
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Oxetocyon sp. Green 1954
Hesperocyon sp. Scott 1890
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
? Daphoenus sp. Leidy 1853
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops tertius Reed 1961
Mammalia - Soricidae
Domnina gradata Cope 1873
Mammalia - Rodentia - Florentiamyidae
Proheteromys nebraskensis Wood 1937
recombined as Kirkomys nebraskensis
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Eumys sp. Leidy 1856
Eumys brachyodus Wood 1937
Scottimus sp. Wood 1937
Scottimus exiguus (Wood 1937)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus burkei Schlaikjer 1935
? Palaeolagus intermedius Matthew 1899
Megalagus turgidus (Cope 1873)
Mammalia - Apatemyidae
Sinclairella cf. dakotensis Jepsen 1934
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Fall River
Coordinates: 43.2° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 95.7° 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:Whitneyan
Age range of interval:31.80000 - 29.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:Whitney
Local section:HarRn Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:possibly relevant: Merycoidodon major - "Genetochoerus chamberlaini" Schultz and Falkenbach 1968: "5 mi. NW. of Slim Butte" in "Brule Zone D" (could be Harris Ranch Units C or D) Leptauchenia major - "Hadroleptauchenia primitiva" Schultz and Falkenbach 1968: "7 miles northwest of Slim Butte" in "Brule Zone D"
Metadata
Database number:17337
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3163. W. F. Simpson. 1985. Geology and paleontology of the Oligocene Harris Ranch Badlands, southwestern South Dakota. Dakoterra 2(2):303-333 [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]
6272 D. R. Prothero. 1996. Hyracodontidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 652-663 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]