White River Fauna
The White River Fauna are fossil animals found in the White River Badlands of South Dakota, Wyoming and Nebraska in the United States including Badlands National Park.
The fossils have been found in the White River Formation, Chadron Formation, Brule Formation, and the Arikaree Formation.
Animals from the White River Badlands date from the Oligocene, the Miocene, and the Pliocene Epochs.
List
Genera include:
- Alligator (Crocodilian)
- Archaeotherium (Entelodont)
- Bathornis (Predatory bathornithid bird)
- Dinictis (Nimravid)
- Eporeodon (Oreodont)
- Eusmilus (Nimravid)
- Hoplophoneus (Nimravid)
- Hyaenodon (Hyaenodont)
- Hypertragulus (Tragulid-like Even-Toed Ungulate)
- Hyracodon (Running Rhino)
- Ischyromys (Ground Squirrel-like Rodent)
- Leptomeryx (Tragulid-like Even-Toed Ungulate)
- Megacerops (large Brontotherid Odd-Toed Ungulate)
- Merycoidodon (Oreodont)
- Mesohippus (Horse)
- Metamynodon (Aquatic Rhino)
- Miniochoerus (Oreodont)
- Paracrax (Predatory bathornithid bird)
- Poebrotherium (Camel)
- Subhyracodon (Rhinoceros)
See also
Further reading
- Rachel Benton, The White River Badlands: Geology and Paleontology, Indiana University Press 2015
- William Berryman Scott, A history of land mammals in the western hemisphere, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1913
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