Quiver Hill (Lower Poleslide): Whitneyan, South Dakota

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Otionohyus cedrensis Hay 1930
    = Merycoidodon bullatus Leidy 1869
Alroy 2002
replaces ID of Schultz and Falkenbach 1968 from "18 miles south of Kadoka," Brule Zone C; also "Genetochoerus geygani" from "Quiver Hill" Brule Zone C; also "Subdesmatochoerus socialis" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1954 from "Quiver Hill area... 'upper Oreodon'"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:South Dakota County:Washabaugh
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:31.80000 - 29.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Brule Member:Poleslide
Local section:BgBad Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Database number:17363
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1996-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:42
Access level:the public Released:1996-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6270. M. S. Stevens and J. B. Stevens. 1996. Merycoidodontinae and Miniochoerinae. In D. R. Prothero and R. J. Emry (eds.), The Terrestrial Eocene-Oligocene Transition in North America 498-573 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

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