Sharps Formation
97 distinct taxa, from 348 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name, spanning 32–19 Mya.
South Dakota · US
97 taxa · 348 fossils · 32–19 MyaMembers recorded: middle, upper, Rockyford, lower.
Macrostrat places this rock in the Arikaree Group. Macrostrat’s own record
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3 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Palaeocastor
- Nanotragulus loomisi
- Palaeolagus philoi
- Capacikala gradatus
- Palaeolagus hypsodus
- Archaeocyon leptodus
- Leptauchenia decora
- Leptauchenia major
- Megalagus primitivus
- Proscalops evelynae
- Capatanka
- Cynarctoides roii
- Miohippus equiceps
- Ekgmowechashala philotau
- Leptomerycidae
- Palaeocastor peninsulatus
- Campestrallomys dawsonae
- Fanimus clasoni
- Mesocyon temnodon
- Philotrox condoni
- Mesoreodon minor
- Paciculus woodi
- Palaeogale dorothiae
- Leidymys blacki
- Quadrodens wilsoni
- Thinohyus
- Camelidae
- Capatanka gaulodon
- Capatanka minor
- Diceratherium armatum
- Diceratherium marriottae
- Herpetotherium youngi
- Hoplophoneus cerebralis
- Miohippus equinanus
- Proharrymys fedti
- Proheteromys gremmelsi
- Proscalops
- Sunkahetanka geringensis
- Tenudomys dakotensis
- Agriochoerus
The 40 most often recorded, of 97.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.