PBDB Collection

Rosebud Agency Quarry: Clarendonian - Hemphillian, South Dakota

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)

	Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Macrogenis sp. Wright 1993	Wright 1983
	new Leptarctus Quarry species
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Cranioceras dakotensis n. sp. Frick 1937	Frick 1937
	= Cranioceras unicornis Matthew 1918	Alroy 2002
	"vicinity of Rosebud Agency 1903"
Mammalia - Moschidae

	Longirostromeryx wellsi n. sp. (Matthew 1904)	Skinner et al. 1977
	of Matthew 1904 "exact discovery site... unknown" but from "near Rosebud Agency"; said by Frick 1937 to be from "Little White River, South Dakota"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Pseudhipparion gratum (Leidy 1869)	Skinner et al. 1977
	"southeast of the Rosebud Agency Buildings... 140 feet above the contact of the Rosebud-Pliocene undifferentiated"

	Hipparion tehonense (Merriam 1916)	MacFadden 1984
	recombined as Hipparion gratum tehonense
	confirmed by JA pers. obs.
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	South Dakota	County:	Todd
Coordinates:	43.2° North, 100.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	43.5° North, 98.7° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene

*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
Key time interval:	Clarendonian - Hemphillian
Age range of interval:	12.50000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Ash Hollow	Member:	? Cap Rock
Local section:	ValAH	Local bed:	5
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Taxonomic list comments:19 F:AM specimens: Skinner and Johnson 1984 possibly relevant: Cosoryx furcatus Frick 1937: "15 mi. N.E. of Rosebud Agency"

Metadata

Database number:	18352
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

3558.

X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [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]
6222		C. Frick. 1937. Horned ruminants of North America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 69:1-669 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6244		B. J. MacFadden. 1984. Systematics and phylogeny of Hipparion, Neohipparion, Nannippus, and Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of the New World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 179(1):1-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3175		M. F. Skinner, S. M. Skinner, and R. J. Gooris. 1977. Stratigraphy and biostratigraphy of late Cenozoic deposits in central Sioux County, western Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 158(5):263-370 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3773		D. B. Wright. 1983. Later Miocene Tayassuidae (Artiodactyla, Mammalia) of North America. University of Nebraska, M. S. thesis 1-350 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Sepkoski]