Hermosa: Hemingfordian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Cyclopidius schucherti n. sp.
(Thorpe 1921)
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| synonym of Leptauchenia decora | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Custer |
| Coordinates: | 43.8° North, 103.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.5° North, 99.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:said to be "Sheep Creek" in age as discussed by Macdonald 1963, this appears to be a shipping point and not an actual locality; the type may be from the Wounded Knee area | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17951 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2006-09-13 00:54:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3430. | M. R. Thorpe. 1937. The Merycoidodontidae, an extinct group of ruminant mammals. Peabody Museum of Natural History Memoir 3(4):1-428 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 3406 | M. R. Thorpe. 1920. New species of Oligocene (White River) Felidae. American Journal of Science 50(297):207-224 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 3452 | E. L. Troxell. 1921. The American bothriodonts. American Journal of Science 1(4):325-339 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |