West Side of Potato Creek: Whitneyan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynodesmus thooides
Scott 1893
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| Leptauchenia beds, middle Poleslide Mbr. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Paramerycoidodon major
Leidy 1853
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Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 | |||||||||
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= Merycoidodon major
Leidy 1853
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "E. side of Potato Creek"; also their "M. lambi" from "E. branch of Red Water Creek" and "E. side of Potato Creek"; "M. lynchi" from "E. branch of Redwater Creek"; "E. side of Potato Creek"; "P. wanlessi" from "Potato Creek Basin"; "E. side of Potato Creek"; "Otionohyus alexi" from "E. side of Potato Creek"; "Genetochoerus chamberlaini" from "Potato Creek Basin"; all Brule Zone D; and "Promesoreodon scanloni" Schultz and Falkenbach 1949: Redwater Creek (Washabaugh Co.), level not stated, but "type" is from Leptauchenia beds | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Washabaugh |
| Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 101.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.4° North, 94.3° 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
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17431 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:34:39 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6226. | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 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] |