Object Details
- Geologic Age
- Cenozoic - Paleogene - Oligocene - Orellan
- Record Last Modified
- 10 Jun 2021
- Skeletal Morphology
- Skull elements, partial lower jaw
- Stratigraphy
- White River Group - Brule Fm
- Collection Date
- 1849
- Collector
- John Evans
- Place
- South Dakota, United States, North America
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- Paleogeneral
- Types: Mammals Terrestrial
- Mammalia Primary Type
- Paleobiology
- Published Name
- Hoplophoneus primaevus Leidy & Owen, 1851
- Machairodus primaevus (Leidy & Owen, 1851)
- Drepanodon primaevus (Leidy, 1857)
- Hoplophoneus primaevus latidens Thorpe
- Data Source
- NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.
- USNM Number
- V99
- Type Citation
- Scott & Jepsen. 1936. Am.Philos.Soc.Trans. 28,pt.1: 135.
- Leidy. 1871. U.S.Geol.Geogr.Survey Terr.Rept. 343.
- Leidy. 1869. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Jour. 7,ser.2: 54.
- Leidy. 1852. Rept.Geol.Survey Wisconsin, Iowa And Minnesota. 564-566, pl.12a,f.5.
- Leidy. 1854. Smithsonian Contr.Knowledge. 6: 95-99, pl.18,f.1-5.
- Leidy & Owen. 1851. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Proc. 239.
- Leidy. 1854. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Proc. 7: 156.
- Thorpe. 1920. Am.Jour.Sci. 50: 208-209, 210.
- Simpson. 1941. Am.Mus.Novitates. (n.1123): 1-21.
- Sinclair. 1924. Am.Philos.Soc.Proc. 63 (n.1): 116.
- Harksen & MacDonald. 1969. South Dakota Geol.Survey Rept.Inv. (n.o.99): 18.
- Adams. 1896. Am.Naturalist. 30: 49, pl.1,f.3.
- Cope. 1880. Am.Naturalist. 14 (n.12): 850.
- Type Status
- type
- holotype
- Taxonomy
- Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Laurasiatheria Carnivora Felidae
- Record ID
- nmnhpaleobiology_3428388
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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