UNSM Sx-22 (Whitney A) (Oligocene of the United States)

Also known as Round Top, in part

Where: Sioux County, Nebraska (42.4° N, 103.8° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 96.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the UNSM

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1968. The Phylogeny of the Oreodonts. Part 1: Merycoidodontinae, Eporeodontinae, and Leptaucheniinae, Three Subfamilies Of Oreodonts, With an Appendix to the Revision Of The Merycoidodontidae, and Part 2. Summary and Conclusions Concerning the Merycoidodontidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 139:1-498 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 17418: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1996, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• oreodonts are from "Brule Zone C"
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Merycoidodon (Blickohyus) lynchi" = Merycoidodon major, "Miniochoerus nicholsae" = Miniochoerus starkensis2, "Leptauchenia harveyi" = Leptauchenia decora
"Merycoidodon (Blickohyus) lynchi" = Merycoidodon major Leidy 1853 oreodont
"Miniochoerus nicholsae" = Miniochoerus starkensis2 Schultz and Falkenbach 1956 oreodont
"Leptauchenia harveyi" = Leptauchenia decora Leidy 1856 oreodont
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Peltosaurus sp.1 Cope 1873 squamates