Sharps (SDSM V-5347): Geringian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Miohippus equiceps (Cope 1878)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Hypertragulidae
Nanotragulus intermedius Schlaikjer 1935
1 specimen
    = Nanotragulus loomisi Lull 1922
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
? Megalagus cf. primitivus (Schlaikjer 1935)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Pleurolicus leptophrys Cope 1881
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
    = Tenudomys macdonaldi n. sp. Rensberger 1973
Rensberger 1973
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, 95.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Geringian
Age range of interval:29.50000 - 24.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Sharps Member:upper
Local section:BgBad Local bed:13
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:SDSM
Taxonomic list comments:NISP 4
Metadata
Database number:17623
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]