Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.4° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)
• Upper Nodular Zone = Scenic Mb of Brule Fm (Bump 1956)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: W. J. Sinclair. 1924. The Faunas of the Concretionary Zones of the Oreodon Beds, White River Oligocene. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 63(1):94-133 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 17095: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
SE of Cottonwood Pass and NE of Cuny Table
Mammalia | |
Perchoerus minor Cook 1922 peccary |