Big Spring Canyon (Site 11): Miocene, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus cf. gratus
(Leidy 1869)
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= Pseudhipparion cf. gratum
Leidy 1869
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Metoreodon sp.
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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= Merychyus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras unicornis
Matthew 1918
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Stirton 1944 | |||||||||
| places this in "? Pediomeryx sp." but this is very dubious DUPLICATE REF 3236 or 3879 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Merycodus sp.
Leidy 1854
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= Merycodontinae indet.
Matthew 1904
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| "Megatylopus" | ||||||||||
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Pliauchenia sp.
Cope 1875
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Procamelus grandis
Gregory 1939
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Bennett |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 101.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.7° North, 98.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Museum repositories: | UCMP |
| Taxonomic list comments:about 300 m from the other sites and may be at a different stratigraphic level | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UCMP V-3322 | ||
| Database number: | 18064 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-07-15 19:35:34 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1720. | J. T. Gregory. 1942. Pliocene Vertebrates From Big Spring Canyon South Dakota. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 26(4):307-446 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 3236 | R. A. Stirton. 1944. Comments on the relationships of the cervoid family Palaeomerycidae. American Journal of Science 242(12) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |