Toadstool Park (Eocene of the United States)
Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.8° N, 95.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Chadron Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: D. R. Prothero, C. R. Farmer, and H. G. Farmer. 1982. Oligocene calibration of the magnetic polarity time scale. Geology 10(12):650-653 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 17031: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• referred to as "Pine Ridge"; Ostrander 1985 explains that this is in Toadstool Park
this list is apparently based on Prothero's thesis
Hunt 1987 gives coordinate as SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec 8 T33N R53W 15 mi. NW of Crawford, Dawes Co.; this is in Sioux Co.
this list is apparently based on Prothero's thesis
Hunt 1987 gives coordinate as SE 1/4 NE 1/4 sec 8 T33N R53W 15 mi. NW of Crawford, Dawes Co.; this is in Sioux Co.
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Mammalia | |
Eotylopus reedi Matthew 1910 even-toed ungulate | |
Poebrotherium eximium Hay 1902 camel | |
"Leptotragulus profectus" = Trigenicus profectus
"Leptotragulus profectus" = Trigenicus profectus Matthew 1903 protoceratid | |
Leptomeryx speciosus Lambe 1908 ruminant | |
Ischyromyidae indet. Alston 1876 rodent
Ischyromys veterior Matthew 1903 rodent | |
Yoderimyinae indet. Wood 1955 rodent | |
Cylindrodon sp. Douglass 1902 rodent | |
Megalagus brachyodon Matthew 1903 rabbit
Palaeolagus temnodon Douglass 1902 rabbit |