Turtle Butte (Burge): Clarendonian, South Dakota
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Eubelodon morrilli
(Barbour 1914)
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| Mastodon morrilli | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Ischyrocyon sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pseudhipparion retrusum
(Cope 1889)
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Hipparion cf. occidentale
Leidy 1856
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Pliohippus pernix
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Aepycamelus sp.
Macdonald 1956
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Procamelus sp.
Leidy 1858
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| compared to Burge Quarry Procamelus, i.e., P. grandis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sp.
Cope 1878
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= Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Green and Holman 1977 | |||||||||
| "Lower Ash Hollow member... at West Gap, Turtle Butte" | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | South Dakota | County: | Tripp |
| Coordinates: | 43.2° North, 99.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 43.6° North, 97.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Rich 1981 lists a UM specimen of Metechinus amplior from "Near the midpoint of the boundary between sections 17 and 20, T. 95 N, R. 74 W... Tripp Co."; this is not one of Tabrum's localities and is about 2 mi SW of the main Turtle Butte localities | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18428 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2018-02-05 15:03:47 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3174. | M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1968. Cenozoic rocks and faunas of Turtle Butte, south-central South Dakota. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 138(7) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1717 | M. Green and J. A. Holman. 1977. A late Tertiary stream channel fauna from South Bijou Hill, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 51(3):543-547 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |