Middle Cabbage Patch Beds: Arikareean, Montana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Petauristinae indet. Miller 1912
"flying squirrel"
Allomys sp. Marsh 1877
    = Allomyinae indet.
Alroy 2002
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Taricha (Palaeotaricha) miocenica n. sp. Tihen 1974
Tihen 1974
Mammalia - Rodentia - Aplodontidae
Aplodontidae indet. Brandt 1855
two forms
? Meniscomys sp. Cope 1878
Niglarodon sp. Black 1961
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
? Tenudomys sp. Rensberger 1973
probably includes "Mookomys sp." of Rich and Rasmussen 1973 from Cabbatch Patch Loc. 2
Pleurolicus sp. Cope 1878
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Eomyidae indet. Winge 1887
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eutypomyidae
Eutypomys sp. Matthew 1905
    = Eutypomyidae indet. Miller and Gidley 1918
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Monosaulax sp. Stirton 1935
    = Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
and "? Capatanka
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus sp. Viret 1926
    = Zapodidae indet. Coues 1875
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Paciculus sp. Cope 1879
Leidymys sp. Wood 1936
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Archaeolagus sp. Dice 1917
? Desmatolagus sp. Matthew and Granger 1923
Mammalia - Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
from Ku-Mt-12 according to Rich 1981
Ocajila rasmusseni Korth 2022
Parvericius sp. Koerner 1940
    = Parvericius montanus Koerner 1940
Rich and Rasmussen 1973
present at Bert Creek Loc. 2
Amphechinus sp. Aymard 1850
    = Amphechinus horncloudi Macdonald 1970
Rich 1981
KU-Mt-9 (MV6504-5), KU-Mt-11 (MV-6617)
Stenoechinus tantalus Rich and Rasmussen 1973
Rich 1981
from Cabbage Patch Loc. 13 (KU-Mt-46), Granite Co., said to be in the "middle Cabbage Patch beds"
Mammalia - Talpidae
Mystipterus sp. Hall 1930
Mammalia - Proscalopidae
Proscalops sp. Matthew 1901
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium armatum Marsh 1875
Prothero and Rasmussen 2008
referred material from MV6504-4 and MV6554
Diceratherium sp. Marsh 1875
    = Diceratherium cf. armatum Marsh 1875
Tedford et al. 1987
    = Diceratherium radtkei n. sp. Prothero and Rasmussen 2008
Prothero and Rasmussen 2008
Locality MV6504-1
Diceratherium annectens (Marsh 1873)
Prothero and Rasmussen 2008
referred material from MV6558
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Leptomerycidae
Pronodens sp. Koerner 1940
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
    = Merycochoerus sp. Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia
Peratherium sp. Aymard 1850
    = Herpetotheriinae indet. Trouessart 1879
Alroy 2002
spelled with current rank as Herpetotheriidae
? Nanodelphys sp. McGrew 1937
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Montana County:Granite and Powell
Coordinates: 46.7° North, 113.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:47.8° North, 107.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Oligocene
Key time interval:Arikareean
Age range of interval:30.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Renova
Local section:CabbP Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Environment:pond
Geology comments: "a pond in a flood basin" (Tihen 1974)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: University of Montana Museum of Paleontology material of Tihen was apparently collected by D. Rasmussen
Taxonomic list comments:includes Bert Creek Loc. 2 (MV6504-2); Cabbage Patch Loc. 2 (Ku-Mt-12 = MN6504-4); Dutton Ranch Loc. 7 (MV-6623); Flint Creek Loc. 2 (KU-MT-28 = MV-6604), and probably numerous other localities: see Rich and Rasmussen 1973, Pierce and Rasmussen 1992
Rich and Rasmussen 1973 list "Domnina sp." from Cabbage Patch Loc. 2
"? Parasminthus sp." is not documented in North America, see Korth 1994c
Metadata
Database number:17543
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-11-04 21:52:16
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2831. D. L. Rasmussen. 1989. Depositional Environments, Paleoecology, and Biostratigraphy of Arikareean Bozeman Group Strata West of the Continental Divide in Montana. Montana Geological Society 1989 Field Conference Guidebook 1:205-215 [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]
50941 D. R. Prothero and D. L. Rasmussen. 2008. New giant rhinoceros from the Arikareean (Oligocene–Miocene) of Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming. In S. Lucas (ed.), New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 44:323-330 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
2897 T. H. V. Rich. 1981. Origin and History of the Erinaceinae and Brachyericinae (Mammalia, Insectivora) in North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 171(1):1-116 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Mannion]
2898 T. H. V. Rich and D. L. Rasmussen. 1973. New North American erinaceine hedgehogs (Mammalia; Insectivora). Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 21:1-54 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6198 R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
25670 J. A. Tihen. 1974. Two new North American Miocene salamandrids. Journal of Herpetology 8(3):211-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]