North Unit, Badlands National Park (Oligocene of the United States)

Where: Pennington County, South Dakota (43.7° N, 101.9° W: paleocoordinates 44.9° N, 93.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Scenic Member (Brule Formation), Orellan (33.9 - 33.3 Ma)

• Minichoerus affinis Interval Zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: E. Welsh. 2021. A New Species of an Enigmatic Carnivore Palaeogale (Feliformia:Palaeogalidae) from Badlands National Park, South Dakota . Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 100:107-120 [N. Famoso/N. Famoso]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224881: authorized by Nicholas Famoso, entered by Nicholas Famoso on 08.04.2022, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Osbornodon renjiei Wang 1994 canid
BADL 63382, "slightly crushed anterior portion of skull with complete upper dentition excluding the right P1, left and right dentaries with complete lower dentition excluding the incisors and left p1"
 Carnivora - Palaeogalidae
Palaeogale evanoffi n. sp. Welsh 2021 carnivoran