Object Details
- Geologic Age
- Cenozoic - Paleogene - Oligocene
- Record Last Modified
- 17 Oct 2024
- Skeletal Morphology
- Skull partial juvenile, partial lower jaw, T-R-P4-M3, L-P4, P4-(deciduous)+M1
- Stratigraphy
- White River Group
- Collection Date
- 1849
- Collector
- John Evans
- Place
- South Dakota, United States, North America
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- Paleogeneral
- Mammals Terrestrial - Paleogene
- Mammalia Oligocene Orellan Brule Formation
- Paleobiology
- Published Name
- Archaeotherium mortoni Leidy, 1850
- Entelodon mortoni (Leidy)
- Elotherium mortoni (Leidy)
- Data Source
- NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.
- USNM Number
- V146
- Type Citation
- Leidy. 1854. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Proc. 7 157.
- Leidy. 1869. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Jour. 7,ser.2 175, 185.
- Leidy. 1871. U.S.Geol.Geogr.Survey Terr.Rept. 353.
- Leidy, Owen. 1852. Rept.Geol.Survey Wisconsin, Iowa And Minnesota. 558-562, pl.10,f.1-2.
- Leidy. 1854. Smithsonian Contr.Knowledge. 6 62, 122,pl.8,f.2,pl.9,f.1-2.
- Sinclair. 1921. Am.Philos.Soc.Proc. 60 476.
- Sinclair. 1922. Am.Philos.Soc.Proc. 61 59.
- Type Status
- paratype
- Taxonomy
- Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Laurasiatheria Artiodactyla Entelodontidae
- Record ID
- nmnhpaleobiology_3439386
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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