Sharps (SDSM V-545) (Oligocene of the United States)
Also known as LACM 1987
Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.3° N, 95.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sharps Formation, Whitneyan (33.3 - 30.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the SDSM
Primary reference: J. R. Macdonald. 1970. Review of the Miocene Wounded Knee faunas of southwestern South Dakota. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 8:165-82 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/C. Bell]more details
PaleoDB collection 17379: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.10.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• several miles west of the main Sharps localities and in the "base" of the Fm., which could or could not be the Rockyford Ash; Wang 1994 claims that this is below the Rockyford Ash in "Leptauchenia" nodules
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