Sharps (LACM 2005): Geringian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Sunkahetanka geringensis (Barbour and Schultz 1935)
1 specimen
    = Philotrox condoni Merriam 1906
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
Palaeocastor nebrascensis (Leidy 1856)
    = Palaeocastor sp. Leidy 1869
Alroy 2002
see Xu 1996
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Promylagaulus ovatus Rensberger 1979
    = Trilaccogaulus ovatus Rensberger 1979
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]