UNSM Sx-22 (Above UAZ): Arikareean, Nebraska

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Leptauchenia martini Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Leptauchenia decora
"lower Gering"
Pseudocyclopidius major (Leidy 1856)
original and current combination Leptauchenia major
"lower Gering"
Hadroleptauchenia shanafeltae Schultz and Falkenbach 1968
synonym of Leptauchenia major
"lower Gering"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon sp. Leidy 1856
Tedford et al. 1996
exact locality not certain, but strongly implied to be Sx-22
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Nebraska County:Sioux
Coordinates: 42.4° North, 103.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 98.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4-5
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Oligocene
Key time interval:Arikareean
Age range of interval:29.50000 - 18.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:upper Whitney
Local section:PineR Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Museum repositories:UNSM
Taxonomic list comments:equivalent to "White River Fauna II" of Tedford et al. 1985
Metadata
Also known as:Round Top, in part
Database number:17717
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3386 R. H. Tedford, C. C. Swisher, D. R. Prothero, S. A. King, and T. E. Tierney. 1996. The Whitneyan-Arikareean transition in the High Plains. In D. R. Prothero, R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 312-334 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]