Black Bear Quarry I: Hemingfordian, South Dakota
collected by SDSM 1967
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Didelphimorphia
- Didelphidae
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Peratherium sp.
Aymard 1850
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= Didelphidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| presumably Herpetotherium, see Korth 1994 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Proheteromys sp.
Wood 1932
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= Geomyoidea indet.
Bonaparte 1845
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Dikkomys matthewi
Wood 1936
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Schizodontomys harkseni
(Macdonald 1970)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Eomyidae
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Eomyidae indet.
Winge 1887
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Florentiamyidae
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cf. Sanctimus sp.
Macdonald 1970
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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cf. Miospermophilus sp.
Black 1963
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Protospermophilus sp.
Gazin 1930
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Entoptychidae
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cf. Gregorymys sp.
Wood 1936
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
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Plesiosminthus cf. clivosus
Galbreath 1953
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| recombined as Schaubeumys clivosus | ||||||||||
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Plesiosminthus galbreathi
Wilson 1960
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= Schaubeumys galbreathi
Wilson 1960
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Paciculus cf. montanus
Black 1961
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Leidymys sp.
Wood 1936
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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= Archaeolaginae indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Gripholagomys lavocati
Green 1972
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scalopoides cf. isodens
Wilson 1960
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Mystipterus cf. martini
(Wilson 1960)
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Mammalia
- Proscalopidae
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Mesoscalops sp.
Reed 1960
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Mammalia
- Plesiosoricidae
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Plesiosorex coloradensis
Wilson 1960
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Parvericius cf. montanus
Koerner 1940
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Bennett |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 101.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.9° North, 97.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| Stage: | Burdigalian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Hemingfordian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve | ||
| Rock censused: | 454 kg | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | SDSM | ||
| Collectors: | SDSM | Collection dates: | 1967 |
| Collection method comments: "about one-half ton of productive matrix" (Green 1972) | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | SDSM V-672 | ||
| Database number: | 17877 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-07-23 23:35:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2408. | J. E. Martin. 1976. Small mammals from the Miocene Batesland Formation of South Dakota. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 14(2):69-98 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |