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