Battle Creek Draw (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.9° N, 102.4° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 94.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Poleslide Member (Brule Formation), Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 17309: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995

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Taxonomic list

• immediately SW of Quinn Draw
Korth 1981 reports the following from 1893 Hatcher PU collections in either the Upper Oreodon or Leptauchenia beds, and probably both: Scottimus viduus Scottimus longiquus Scottimus sp.
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Mesocyon" temnodon Wortman and Matthew 1899 canid
head of draw, base of Leptauchenia beds