Godsell Ranch Channel: Arikareean, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Florentiamyidae
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Hitonkala andersontau
Macdonald 1963
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36 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Nototamias sp.
Pratt and Morgan 1989
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Pratt and Morgan 1989 | 9 specimens | ||||||||
"Tamias"; i.d. also noted by Korth 1992a; (isolated teeth) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heliscomyidae
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Heliscomys sp.
Cope 1873
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4 specimens | |||||||||
= Heliscomyidae indet.
Korth et al. 1991
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Proheteromys bumpi
Macdonald 1963
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39 specimens | |||||||||
= Proheteromys gremmelsi
Macdonald 1963
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
(isolated teeth) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Scottimus sp.
Wood 1937
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2 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Domnina greeni n. sp.
Macdonald 1963
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Talpidae indet.
(Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
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Mammalia
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Peratherium spindleri
Macdonald 1963
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54 specimens | |||||||||
= Herpetotherium youngi
McGrew 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
(isolated teeth) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Amphisbaenidae
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Amphisbaenidae indet.
Gray 1865
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Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Iguanidae indet.
Oppel 1811
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Reptilia
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? Peltosaurus sp.
Cope 1873
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Reptilia
- Anguidae
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Anguidae indet.
Gray 1825
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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] |