Sharps (SDSM V-5345) (Oligocene of the United States)
Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.3° N, 102.5° W: paleocoordinates 44.1° N, 95.8° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Sharps Formation, Geringian (30.8 - 26.3 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 17622: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• shown close to the top of the "lower" Sharps, but said to be in the "lower one-quarter" of the Fm.; this makes the difference between Sharps Faunas A and B
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Mammalia | |
Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869 beaver |