Sharps (LACM 2005): Geringian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Sunkahetanka geringensis
(Barbour and Schultz 1935)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
= Philotrox condoni
Merriam 1906
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Wang 1994 | |||||||||
Macdonald says that his material is "fairly well centered in the middle of the section" within the Sharps, and this is the only one of six new specimens that I cannot confirm as being from this level | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Palaeocastor nebrascensis
(Leidy 1856)
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= Palaeocastor sp.
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see Xu 1996 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Promylagaulus ovatus
Rensberger 1979
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= Trilaccogaulus ovatus
Rensberger 1979
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Rensberger 1979 | |||||||||
listed incorrectly as LACM 20051 by Rensberger 1980 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Shannon |
Coordinates: | 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 44.1° North, 95.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Oligocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 4 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Geringian | ||
Age range of interval: | 30.80000 - 26.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Sharps |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories: | LACM |
Taxonomic list comments:NISP unclear |
Metadata
Database number: | 17611 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:42 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2356. | 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] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2862 | J. M. Rensberger. 1979. Early Miocene Promylagaulus. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 312:1-18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
6226 | X. Wang. 1994. Phylogenetic systematics of the Hesperocyoninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 221:1-207 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |