Also known as E. of Porcupine Butte, "Bird Head" of Porcupine Creek
Where: Shannon County, South Dakota (43.2° N, 102.3° W: paleocoordinates 44.0° N, 97.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Rosebud Formation, Harrisonian (24.8 - 20.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: W. D. Matthew and J. R. Macdonald. 1960. Two new species of Oxydactylus from the middle Miocene Rosebud Formation in western South Dakota. American Museum Novitates 2003:1-7 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 17745: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Desmathyus pinensis3 Matthew 1907 peccary from “3 mi. e of Porcupine [Shannon County, South Dakota]”
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"Oxydactylus exilis n. sp." = Michenia exilis, Oxydactylus lacota n. sp.
"Oxydactylus exilis n. sp." = Michenia exilis Matthew and Macdonald 1960 camel
Oxydactylus lacota n. sp. Matthew and Macdonald 1960 camel | |
"Blastomeryx primus" = Problastomeryx primus2
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"Desmatochoerus (Paradesmatochoerus) wyomingensis" = Mesoreodon minor4 Douglass 1903 oreodont "from mouth of Porcupine Creek Canyon"
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"Nothocyon minor" = Phlaocyon minor2
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Reptilia | |
"Testudo emiliae n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis1
"Testudo emiliae n. sp." = Stylemys nebrascensis1 Leidy 1851 turtle AMNH 6135 (holotype), a partial shell (Hay 1908, pl. 70)
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