Potato Creek: Hemingfordian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Schaubeumys grangeri n. sp. Wood 1935
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Jackson
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 101.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.2° North, 98.0° 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
Taxonomic list comments:not in the Wounded Knee field area, and no other fauna reported
Metadata
Database number:17981
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3721. A. E. Wood. 1935. Two new genera of cricetid rodents from the Miocene of western United States. American Museum Novitates 789 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]