Indian Creek (Middle Titanotherium Beds) (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.6° N, 93.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: H. F. Osborn. 1908. New or little known titanotheres from the Eocene and Oligocene. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 24(32):599-617 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
PaleoDB collection 16978: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• relationship of unit to members of Clark and Beerbower 1967 unclear
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Bathornis veredus4 Wetmore 1927 bird Princeton specimen collected by G. L. Jepsen in 1929 from "Middle Titanothere (Chadron) deposits... on Indian Creek"
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Heteromeryx dispar n. sp.3
Heteromeryx dispar n. sp.3 Matthew 1905 protoceratid from "Middle Titanotherium Beds on Indian Creek... S. Dakota"; see also Patton and Taylor 1973
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"Megacerops hatcheri" = Megacerops coloradensis1
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