Sharps (SDSM V-5353) (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: middle Member (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 17629: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• NISP 9 (including est. 3 Palaeocastor)
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Hesperocyon leptodus" = Archaeocyon leptodus
"Hesperocyon leptodus" = Archaeocyon leptodus Schlaikjer 1935 bone-crushing dog
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Thinohyus sp.1 Marsh 1875 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Hypertragulidae
Nanotragulus loomisi1 Lull 1922 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
Leptomerycidae indet.1 Zittel 1893 ruminant
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus philoi Dawson 1958 rabbit
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Palaeocastor peninsulatus2 Cope 1881 beaver
presumably "P. nebrascensis"