Godsell Ranch Channel: Arikareean, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Florentiamyidae
Hitonkala andersontau Macdonald 1963
36 specimens
(isolated teeth)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989
Pratt and Morgan 1989 9 specimens
"Tamias"; i.d. also noted by Korth 1992a; (isolated teeth)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heliscomyidae
Heliscomys sp. Cope 1873
4 specimens
    = Heliscomyidae indet. Korth et al. 1991
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Proheteromys bumpi Macdonald 1963
39 specimens
    = Proheteromys gremmelsi Macdonald 1963
Alroy 2002
(isolated teeth)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Scottimus sp. Wood 1937
2 specimens
Mammalia - Soricidae
Domnina greeni n. sp. Macdonald 1963
1 specimen
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Mammalia
Peratherium spindleri Macdonald 1963
54 specimens
    = Herpetotherium youngi McGrew 1937
Alroy 2002
(isolated teeth)
Reptilia - Amphisbaenidae
Amphisbaenidae indet. Gray 1865
Reptilia - Iguanidae
Iguanidae indet. Oppel 1811
Reptilia
? Peltosaurus sp. Cope 1873
Reptilia - Anguidae
Anguidae indet. Gray 1825
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:Tertiary *Epoch:Oligocene
Key time interval:Arikareean
Age range of interval:30.80000 - 20.43000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:145 specimens
Museum repositories:SDSM
Taxonomic list comments:in a channel deposit cut into the Brule Fm.; "fauna indicates that this channel is referable to the Sharps formation" but there is no direct stratigraphic evidence; see also Tedford et al. 1996
NISP 145
Metadata
Also known as:SDSM V-5413
Database number:17516
Authorizer:J. Alroy, C. Bell Enterer:J. Alroy, C. Bell
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2351. J. R. Macdonald. 1963. The Miocene faunas from the Wounded Knee area of western South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 125(3):139-238 [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]
2791 A. E. Pratt and G. S. Morgan. 1989. New Sciuridae (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Early Miocene Thomas Farm Local Fauna, Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 9(1):89-100 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]