Monroe Creek (LACM 1964): Monroecreekian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Grangerimus sp. Wood 1936
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
    = Pleurolicus dakotensis Wood 1936
Rensberger 1973
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Enhydrocyon crassidens Matthew 1907
1 specimen
    = Enhydrocyon pahinsintewakpa Macdonald 1963
Wang 1994
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Temnocyon percussor Cook 1909
1 specimen
    = Mammacyon sp. Loomis 1936
Hunt 1998
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Shannon
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.1° North, 96.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Chattian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Monroecreekian
Age range of interval:24.70000 - 23.10000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Monroe Creek
Local section:BgBad Local bed:14
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:LACM
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 3
Metadata
Database number:17554
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-04-21 20:03:51
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2356. J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]

Secondary references:

1977 R. M. Hunt, Jr. 1998. Amphicyonidae. 196-227 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6267 J. M. Rensberger. 1973. Pleurolicine rodents (Geomyoidea) of the John Day Formation, Oregon, and their relationships to taxa from the early and middle Miocene, South Dakota. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 102:1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]