Five Miles Below Mouth of Porcupine Creek (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 95.0° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: L. B. Albright. 1998. New genus of tapir (Mammalia: Tapiridae) from the Arikareean (earliest Miocene) of the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1):200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details

PaleoDB collection 17332: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 21.09.1998

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Taxonomic list

• this is a PU locality in the Protoceras Beds
correct locality info given by Albright 1998a
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Protapirus simplex Wortman and Earle 1893 tapir