White Butte (Arikareean) ( of the United States)
Also known as White Bluffs; Chalky Butte
Where: Slope County, North Dakota (46.4° N, 103.3° W: paleocoordinates 47.3° N, 97.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Killdeer Formation, Arikareean (29.5 - 18.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: W. W. Korth and B. E. Bailey. 1992. Additional Specimens of Leptodontomys douglassi (Eomyidae, Rodentia) from the Arikareean (Late Oligocene) of Nebraska. Journal of Mammalogy 73(3):651-662 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 17724: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• Brule Fm. localities in same area (see) are Orellan
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Hypertragulus sp. Cope 1874 ruminant said to be "H. minor" by Hoganson et al. 1999 on basis of lost specimens described in unpublished thesis, but I have no other record of this combination
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Archaeocyon leptodus3 Schlaikjer 1935 bone-crushing dog "White Butte (Chalky Buttes), lower Arikaree Group... Slope County"
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