Wolf Creek (SDSM V-529): Clarendonian, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor planus Stirton 1935
recombined as Nothodipoides planus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Neohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Nannippus cf. gratus (Leidy 1869)
    = Pseudhipparion cf. gratum Leidy 1869
Alroy 2002
Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874
    = Equini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2002
description inadequate
Mammalia - Camelidae
Pliauchenia cf. magnifontis Gregory 1939
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Merycodus furcatus (Leidy 1869)
    = Cosoryx ? furcatus Leidy 1869
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Shannon
Coordinates: 43.3° North, 102.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.8° North, 99.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:13.60000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:SDSM
Metadata
Database number:18478
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-28 11:42:48
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1706. M. Green. 1956. The lower Pliocene Ogallala-Wolf Creek vertebrate fauna, South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 30(1):146-169 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]