Cedar Pass (Protoceras Beds): Whitneyan, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Protoceras celer
Marsh 1891
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Patton and Taylor 1973 | |||||||||
| specimen from 1 mi W of Cedar Pass, Jackson Co., in Protoceras Channels | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Entelodontidae
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Archaeotherium lemleyi n. sp.
Macdonald 1951
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| from "1 1/2 mi. NW of Cedar Pass, Jackson Co." | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Penetrigonias dakotensis
(Peterson 1920)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
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Diceratherium tridactylum
(Osborn 1893)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| "Protoceras beds (late Whitneyan) of South Dakota" | ||||||||||
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Amphicaenopus platycephalus
(Osborn and Wortman 1894)
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Jackson |
| Coordinates: | 43.5° North, 101.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 44.4° North, 94.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
| Stage: | Rupelian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Whitneyan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 31.80000 - 29.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Brule | Member: | upper Poleslide |
| Local section: | BgBad | Local bed: | 8 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
Metadata
| Database number: | 17316 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-10-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2342. | J. R. Macdonald. 1951. Additions to the Whitneyan fauna of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 25(3):257-265 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 2740 | T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1973. The Protoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae) and the systematics of the Protoceratidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |