Cedar Pass (Protoceras Beds): Whitneyan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Amphicaenopus platycephalus (Osborn and Wortman 1894)
Prothero 2005
Diceratherium tridactylum (Osborn 1893)
Prothero 2005
"Protoceras beds (late Whitneyan) of South Dakota"
Penetrigonias dakotensis (Peterson 1920)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Archaeotherium lemleyi n. sp. Macdonald 1951
from "1 1/2 mi. NW of Cedar Pass, Jackson Co."
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Protoceras celer Marsh 1891
Patton and Taylor 1973
specimen from 1 mi W of Cedar Pass, Jackson Co., in Protoceras Channels
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Jackson
Coordinates: 43.5° North, 101.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:44.4° North, 94.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Oligocene
Stage:Rupelian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 4
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Whitneyan
Age range of interval:33.30000 - 30.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:upper Poleslide
Local section:BgBad Local bed:8
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Database number:17316
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-10-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1995-10-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2342. J. R. Macdonald. 1951. Additions to the Whitneyan fauna of South Dakota. Journal of Paleontology 25(3):257-265 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

2740 T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1973. The Protoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae) and the systematics of the Protoceratidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 150(4) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]