Object Details
- Geologic Age
- Cenozoic - Paleogene - Oligocene - Orellan
- Record Last Modified
- 10 Jun 2021
- Skeletal Morphology
- Skull elements, lower jaw, T-R-P2-M3+L-P3-M3, M3-AA, maxilla, T-R+L-P3-M3, L-M1-AA
- Stratigraphy
- White River Group - Brule Fm
- Collection Date
- 13 May 1850
- Collector
- T. Culbertson
- Place
- Pennington County, South Dakota, United States, North America
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- Paleogeneral
- Types: Mammals Terrestrial
- Mammalia Primary Type
- Paleobiology
- Published Name
- Palaeotherium bairdii Leidy
- Mesohippus bairdi (Leidy, 1850)
- Anchitherium bairdii (Leidy, 1850)
- Data Source
- NMNH - Paleobiology Dept.
- USNM Number
- V2359
- Type Citation
- Leidy. 1852. Smithsonian Inst.Ann.Rept. 1851. 64.
- Leidy. 1850. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Proc. 5: 122.
- Scott & Jepsen. 1941. Am.Philos.Soc.Trans. 28,pt.5: 911, 935.
- Osborn. 1918. Am.Mus.Nat.Hist.Mem. 2,pt.1 (n.5): 46.
- Marsh. 1875. Am.Jour.Sci. 9,ser.3 (n.51): 248.
- Leidy. 1852. Rept.Geol.Survey Wisconsin, Iowa And Minnesota. 572.
- Leidy. 1854. Smithsonian Contr.Knowledge. 6: 67-71, pl.10,f.14,pl.11,f.3,4,6,7,+8.
- Leidy. 1871. U.S.Geol.Geogr.Survey Terr.Rept. 362.
- Leidy. 1869. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Jour. 7,ser.2: 304.
- Leidy. 1854. Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia Proc. 7: 157.
- Type Status
- syntype
- paratype
- Taxonomy
- Animalia Chordata Vertebrata Synapsida Mammalia Eutheria Laurasiatheria Perissodactyla Brontotheriidae
- Record ID
- nmnhpaleobiology_3428109
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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