US And Canadian Fossil Sites -- Data for SOUTH DAKOTA

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Location	County	State/Province	Directions,Notes	Age	Formation	Fossils	Comments	Reference	Lat-Long
-	Bennett	SD	In area exposures of Little White River badlands			fossils	SD0002				\|	,
Flint Hill Quarry	Bennett	SD		Miocene (Hemingford)	Batesland	Ictalurus,Menoceras,Moropus	SD0001				\|	,
North Bijou Hills	Brule	SD	200m NE of benchmark on E side of Missouri River	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0003	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
Belle Fourche	Butte	SD				Cephalopod Scaphites	SD0004				\|	,
Belle Fourche	Butte	SD	N	Cretaceous		ammonites http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/topogeo/education/fossils/fossilpart4.pdf	SD0005				\|	,
-	Campbell,Corson	SD	32 km N near Little Eagle and along Grand River			Silicified Wood	SD0006				\|	,
-	Campbell,Corson	SD	N along Missouri River			Silicified Wood	SD0007				\|	,
South Bijou Hill	Charles Mix	SD	Brule	Miocene	Fort Randall	vertebrates-mammals-Merychippus	SD0008	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission			\|	,
-	Corson	SD	Area Exposures	Cretaceous	Lance	dinosaurs-Pachycephalosaurus	SD0011				\|	,
Mobridge	Corson	SD	On W side of Missouri River just S of town	Paleocene	Cannonball	Decapods	SD0009				\|	,
Mobridge	Corson	SD	S on W side of Missouri River	Paleocene		crabs	SD0010				\|	,
Buffalo Gap	Custer	SD	12.8km SE	Cretaceous	Pierre	Ammonites-Didymoceras	SD0014				\|	,
Cheyenne River	Custer	SD	At Chimney Breaks	Oligocene	Chadron	reptiles-Squamata	SD0015				\|	,
Cheyenne River	Custer	SD	In area exposures	Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	Scaphites,Placenticeras	SD0016				\|	,
Fairburn	Custer	SD	3 km SW in s25t4sr7e	Cretaceous	Greenhorn	abundant fossils -- Gryphaea,Prionotropis	SD0017			s25t4sr7e	\|	,
Fairburn	Custer	SD	SEsw1/4s28t4sr8e	Cretaceous Upper	Carlisle	large cephalopods,other fossils	SD0018			SEsw1/4s28t4sr8e	\|	,
Red Canyon	Custer	SD	In regional badlands			vertebrates,coral,cycads,petrified palm	SD0019	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission			\|	,
Lantry	Dewey	SD	WNW in float in RR cuts,road cuts,Spillway of Lantry Dam S4T12NR22E			Ammonites-Jeletzkytes,other fossils	SD0020			S4T12NR22E	\|	,
Timber Lake	Dewey	SD	area exposures	Cretaceous	Fox Hills	ammonites,Baculites,vertebrates	SD0021				\|	,
Trial City	Dewey	SD				pelecypod Corbicula	SD0022				\|	,
-	Dewey,Ziebach	SD	In N part of County	Cretaceous		reptiles-Triceratops	SD0012	Original cites Schnasse County which was eliminated in 1991			\|	,
-	Dewey,Ziebach	SD	In N part of County	Cretaceous		reptiles-Triceratops	SD0013	Original cites Schnasse County which was eliminated in 1991			\|	,
-	Fall River	SD		Cretaceous	Greenhorn	Inoceramus	SD0035			s14t9sr5e	\|	,
-	Fall River	SD		Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	cephalopods - Cirroceras	SD0033				\|	,
-	Fall River	SD	In limey patches in sandstone	Cretaceous	Carlisle	Prionotropis,Acanthoceras,Scaphites,Gyrodes,Inoceramus,Fusus,etc	SD0036			se1/4 s16t11sR4e	\|	,
-	Fall River	SD	On US18? Near county line,tepee buttes	Cretaceous	Pierre	poorly preserved pelecypods.	SD0034				\|	,
Cycad National Monument	Fall River	SD	In area exposures at Parker Peak 2 km E of Hwy 18,3 km S on Minnekahta			silicified Cycad stumps	SD0023				\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD				Prionocyclus	SD0024				\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD		Cretaceous	Fox Hills Limestone	cephalopods - Discoscaphites,Hoploscaphites,Sphenodiscus	SD0025				\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD		Cretaceous	Niobrara	shark tooth,plesiosaur bones	SD0026				\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD	28.8km W on Moss Agate Creek	Cretaceous	Niobrara	vertebrate-Squamata	SD0027				\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD	32km S near Doo's place	Cretaceous	Pierre	Mosasaur-Platecarpus;Turtle-Toxochelys	SD0028	Original says 'Platycarpus' which appears to be an alternate spelling of 'Platecarpus'			\|	,
Edgemont	Fall River	SD	32km W on Moss Agate Creek	Cretaceous	Niobrara	vertebrates-plesiosaur bones	SD0029	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission			\|	,
Hot Springs	Fall River	SD		Cretaceous	Carlisle Shale	Cephalopods - Prionocyclus	SD0030				\|	,
Hot Springs	Fall River	SD	In Sediments in old sink hole	Pleistocene		About 150 mammoths excavated,150 more estimated still in ground.	SD0031				\|	,
Oelrichs	Fall River	SD	27 km W			Cephalopods -Prionocyclus	SD0032				\|	,
Dixon	Gregory	SD	12km N and 3km W in road cut	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0037	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
Fort Randall Dam	Gregory	SD	on US18 complete section of Pierre Shale on W side of the Missouri River	Cretaceous	Pierre	vertebrates and invertebrates--	SD0038				\|	,
-	Harding	SD	in ant hill debris at Leibermann[?] localities	Cretaceous	Hell Creek	vertebrates-Alphadon,Pediomys	SD0042	This is likely a perfectly valid reference,but I can't identify any Internet references to these localities. CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission			\|	,
Big Springs Canyon	Harding	SD		Miocene (Clarendon)	Loup Fork	turtle-Geochelone	SD0039				\|	,
Buffalo	Harding	SD	S in Sandstone			abundant dinosaur bones	SD0040				\|	,
Buffalo	Harding	SD	near	Cretaceous	Hell Creek	turtles	SD0041				\|	,
Moreau River	Harding?	SD	Area exposures North of Black Hills	Cretaceous	Lance	dinosaurs-Anatosaurus,Anatotitan	SD0043	I've arbitrarily assigned this to Harding County,But could include Butte and/or Perkins County			\|	,
Pierre	Hughes	SD	at crossing of White River by US44 in road cuts	Cretaceous		fossils	SD0044				\|	,
-	Jackson	SD	badlands in W of county	Oligocene	Chadron\|Brule	Tertiary mammals,Hackberry,oak,deciduous trees,Chadron (Oreodon,Titanotheres,Brontops,Brontotherium)Brule (Metamynodon,Hyracodon,tapirs,Agriochoerus,Merycoidodon,Leptauchenia,Dinictis,Hoplophoneus,Artiodactyls,pigs,camels-Poebrotherium	SD0051				\|	,
Cedar Pass	Jackson	SD	3.2km NE	Oligocene	Sharps	bird bones-Paracrax	SD0045				\|	,
Cedar Pass	Jackson	SD	E side	Miocene	Sharps	Turtles-Stylemys	SD0046				\|	,
Kadoka	Jackson	SD	area outcrops	Oligocene	White River	mammal bones	SD0047				\|	,
Kadoka	Jackson	SD	at Flying U Ranch			Petrified Wood and Fossils. (Fee in 1970s)	SD0048				\|	,
Quiver Hill	Jackson	SD		Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Capatanka,Hadroleptauchenia,Hyracodon,Palaeocastor,Pseudocyclopidius,Subdesmatochoerus	SD0049	Washabaugh County merged with Jackson County			\|	,
Red Water Creek	Jackson	SD	On West branch	Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Promesoreodon	SD0050	Washabaugh County merged with Jackson County			\|	,
-	Jackson,Pennington	SD	In shales in White River bluffs			Lucina,Inoceramus,Baculites	SD0053				\|	,
-	Jackson,Pennington	SD	S11t17r4e-12t17r4e in 'Iron Beds'	Cretaceous		Lingula,Inoceramus,Anisomyon,Scaphites	SD0052			S11t17r4e-12t17r4e	\|	,
Spearfish Canyon	Lawrence	SD				petrified Cycad and palm	SD0054				\|	,
Whitewood Creek	Lawrence	SD				petrified Cycad and palm	SD0055				\|	,
-	Meade	SD		Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	Cephalopods - Acanthoscaphites	SD0062				\|	,
Belle Fourche River	Meade	SD	at mouth			Cephalopods -Eutrephoceras	SD0056				\|	,
Bridger	Meade	SD	Cheyenne River	Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	Cephalopods Eutrephoceras,Placenticeras,Baculites	SD0057				\|	,
Cottonwood Creek	Meade	SD	at head of creek	Paleocene		crabs,Linuparus	SD0058	Original says North Dakota,but there is no Meade County in ND			\|	,
Cottonwood Creek	Meade	SD	at head of creek	Paleocene	Cannonball	Decapods	SD0059				\|	,
Elk Creek	Meade	SD		Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	Cephalopods - Baculites	SD0060				\|	,
Piedmont	Meade	SD	4.4km N	Cretaceous	Lakota	vertebrate bones-Atlantosaurus,Hypsilophodon	SD0061				\|	,
-	Meade?,Pennington?	SD	Mollusks	Jurassic?		Oxytoma	SD0063				\|	,
Cheyenne River	Meade[?]	SD		Oligocene	White River	Mammals-Aepinacodon,Agriochoerus,Archaeotherium,Brontops,Brontotherium,Caenopus,Canis,Colodon,Didymoconus,Dinictis,Elomeryx,Entelodon,Erethizon,Eumys,Hesperocyon,Hoplophoneus,Hyaenodon,Hypertragulus,Hyracodon,Hyracotherium,Ischyromys,Leptauchenia	SD0064	Leptictis,Leptochoerus,Leptomeryx,Megalagus,Menodus,Mesohippus,Merycoidodon,Mesohippus,Metamynodon,Miniochoerus,Miohippus,Oreodon,Palaeolagus,Perchoerus,Steneofiber,Subdesmatochoerus,Subhyracodon,Titanotherium;Turtles-Stylemys			\|	,
-	Mellette	SD	At Joe Thin Elk gravel pits	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0068	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
-	Mellette	SD	In area exposures of Little White River badlands			fossils	SD0069				\|	,
Mission	Mellette	SD	8km N,4.8kmE at Thin Elk Gravel Pit	Miocene	Valentine	Turtle-Geochelone,Trionyx	SD0065				\|	,
Three Points Butte	Mellette	SD	near top	Miocene	Rosebud	fossil Daemonelix burrows	SD0066				\|	,
White River	Mellette	SD		Oligocene	White River	bird eggs	SD0067				\|	,
-	Pennington	SD	In area exposures	Cretaceous	Pierre	Baculites	SD0081				\|	,
-	Pennington	SD	In badlands	Oligocene	Brule	Turtles: Stylemys,mammals: Leptomeryx,Merycoidodon,Ischyromys (a rodent)	SD0082				\|	,
-	Pennington	SD	badlands in W of county	Oligocene	Chadron\|Brule	Tertiary mammals. Hackberry,oak,deciduous trees,Chadron (Oreodon,Titanotheres,Brontops,Brontotherium) Brule (Metamynodon,Hyracodon,tapirs,Agriochoerus,Merycoidodon,Leptauchenia,Dinictis,Hoplophoneus,Artiodactyls,pigs,camels-Poebrotherium	SD0083				\|	,
Bear Creek Coal Mine	Pennington	SD		Oligocene	Brule	turtles-Stylemys	SD0070				\|	,
Indian Creek	Pennington	SD		Paleocene		crabs	SD0071				\|	,
Indian Creek	Pennington	SD		Paleocene	Cannonball	Decapods	SD0072				\|	,
Rapid City	Pennington	SD	area exposures			corals	SD0073				\|	,
Rapid City	Pennington	SD	in road cuts on Star Route 44	Cretaceous	Pierre	invertebrates in large concretions.	SD0074				\|	,
Scenic	Pennington	SD				NW Fossils	SD0075				\|	,
Scenic	Pennington	SD	8km S	Oligocene	White River	mammals-Archaeotherium,Colodon,Daphoenocyon,Daphoenus,Dinictis,Elomeryx,Elotherium,Eumys,Hesperocyon,Hoplophoneus,Hyaenodon,Hypertragulus,Hyracodon,Ischyromys,Leptictis,Leptochoerus,Leptomeryx,Megalagus,Mesohippus,Merycoidodon,Mesohippus,Miniochoerus,...	SD0076	Oreodon,Palaeolagus,Paradjidaumo,Poebrotherium,Scottimus			\|	,
Scenic	Pennington	SD	In area badlands	Oligocene	Orella	Hackberry seeds (Celtis). Mammals Mesohippus. Subhyracodon,Merycoidodon	SD0077				\|	,
Scenic	Pennington	SD	to South	Oligocene	Brule	turtles-Stylemys	SD0078				\|	,
Wasta	Pennington	SD	N along Elk Creek and Cheyenne River.	Cretaceous	Pierre Shale	Fossils in Concretions	SD0079				\|	,
Wasta	Pennington	SD	in road cuts on I-90	Cretaceous	Pierre	invertebrates in large concretions.	SD0080				\|	,
-	Pennington,Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Chadron\|Brule	mammals: Dinictis,Hoplophoneus,Hesperocyon,Hyracodon,Caenopus,Perchoerus,Leptomeryx,Leptauchenia,Poebrotherium	SD0084				\|	,
Cedar Draw	Pennington[?]	SD		Oligocene	White River	Squamata-Rhineura	SD0085				\|	,
Ainsworth PL	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Leptauchenia	SD0086				\|	,
American Horse Creek	Shannon	SD	1.6km W	Miocene (Arikareean)	Rosebud	Turtle-Geochelone	SD0087				\|	,
Arrow Wound Table	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule	Mammals-Daphoenus,Dinictis,Eutypomys,Hesperocyon,Hoplophoneus,Hyaenodon,Leptictis,Palaeolagus,Peratherium	SD0088				\|	,
Battle Creek Canyon	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule?	turtles-Stylemys	SD0089				\|	,
Battle Creek Draw	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Hyaenodon,Merycoidodon,Mesocyon,Mesohippus,Miniochoerus,Platyochoerus	SD0090				\|	,
Corral Draw	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule	turtles-Stylemys	SD0091				\|	,
Corral Draw	Shannon	SD	White River Badlands,in Peanut Creek Member	Oligocene	Chadron	mammals: Sinclairella	SD0092				\|	,
Cottonwood Creek	Shannon	SD	On divide with Big Corral Draw	Oligocene	Brule	birds-Paracrax	SD0093				\|	,
Cottonwood Pass	Shannon	SD		Oligocene	Brule	Egg fragments	SD0094				\|	,
Cottonwood Pass (Lower Nodular Zone)	Shannon	SD		Oligocene Upper	Brule	Mammal Fossils	SD0095				\|	,
Indian Stronghold (Protoceras Channel)	Shannon	SD		Oligocene Upper	Brule	Mammal Fossils	SD0096				\|	,
Monroe Creek (SDSM V-6229)	Shannon	SD		Miocene	Monroe Creek	Mammal Fossils	SD0097				\|	,
Rocky Ford	Shannon	SD	13km N	Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Amphicynodon	SD0098				\|	,
Rocky Ford	Shannon	SD	9.5km SE	Oligocene	Chadron	reptiles-Helodermoides	SD0099				\|	,
Rocky Ford	Shannon	SD	N	Oligocene	Brule	mammals-Hyaenodon	SD0100				\|	,
Rosebud	Shannon	SD	Area exposures	Miocene (Arikareean)	Monroe Creek	Mammals-Capatanka,Palaeocastor,Rhinoceras	SD0101				\|	,
Sheep Mountain	Shannon	SD	At Saddle Horse Pass	Oligocene	Brule	turtles-Stylemys	SD0102				\|	,
Fort Pierre	Stanley	SD		Cretaceous	Pierre	Ammonites-Baculites	SD0103				\|	,
Sage Creek	Stanley	SD				Cephalopods Placenticeras	SD0104				\|	,
Sage Creek/Ft Pierre	Stanley	SD				Baculites	SD0105				\|	,
-	Todd	SD		Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0111	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
Mission	Todd	SD	In gravels of South Fork of Little White River			petrified wood	SD0106				\|	,
Mission Micro Locality	Todd	SD	8km W and roughly 5.25km S of Mission in Rosebud Indian Reservation	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0107	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
Rosebud Agency Quarry	Todd	SD	On Hwy from Crookston(NE) to Rosebud(SD) 2/3 of way up hill from Rosebud Creek	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	vertebrates	SD0108	CAUTION:Collecting vertebrate material in the US requires landowner or government permission	See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
Rosebud Indian Reservation	Todd	SD	Hollow Horn Bear Quarry	Miocene (Clarendon)	Ash Hollow	bird and turtle bones	SD0109		See Ash Hollow sites at http://paleo.amnh.org/fossil/rock.html for more details.		\|	,
St Francis	Todd	SD	4.8km W at Sawmill Canyon	Miocene (Hemphill)	Ogallala	Turtles-Trionyx	SD0110				\|	,
Turtle Buttes	Tripp	SD	At E end on W side of gap	Oligocene-Miocene	Turtle Butte	Turtles-Stylemys	SD0112				\|	,
North Sioux City	Union	SD	13 km W of I-29 on SD50 in Ridge crossing road	Cretaceous	Greenhorn	pelecypods	SD0113				\|	,
Yankton	Yankton	SD		Cretaceous	Niobrara	Fish-Benthesikyme,Ichthyotringa,Leptotomus,Sardinius,Spaniodon	SD0114				\|	,
Yankton	Yankton	SD	4,8km W near Gavins Point Dam in quarries along N bank of Missouri River	Cretaceous	Pierre	shells,fish,reptiles	SD0115				\|	,
-	Ziebach	SD	Marine fossils from beds in Breien member of the Lower Hell Creek Formation	Cretaceous	Hell Creek	marine mollusks	SD0117				\|	,
Quinn Draw	Ziebach	SD		Oligocene	Chadron	turtles-Stylemys	SD0116				\|	,
Quinn Draw	Ziebach[?]	SD		Oligocene	White River	Turtles-Trionyx	SD0118				\|	,
-	[?]	SD		Cretaceous	Fox Hills Sandstone	Plants Ficus fruit	SD0129				\|	,
-	[?]	SD		Cretaceous	Lance	Nodosaur - Denversaurus	SD0130				\|	,
-	[?]	SD	Near Wyoming line on SD18	Cretaceous	Sundance	cephalopods	SD0131				\|	,
Badlands	[?]	SD	in area road cuts and roadside ditches.			fossils	SD0119				\|	,
Black Hills	[?]	SD	area exposures	Ordovician		Ostracoderms (jawless fish)	SD0120				\|	,
Black Hills	[?]	SD	regional white Limestone outcrops	Cretaceous	Madison	marine invertebrates.	SD0121				\|	,
Black Hills	[?]	SD	sparse fossils in 200m of limestone and dolomite	Mississippian	Pahasapa	Brachiopods,Bryozoa,Crinoids	SD0122	The black hills cover several counties in SouthWest SD			\|	,
Calf Spring[?]	[?]	SD		Eocene	Chadron	Mammal Reference Location	SD0123	Can't identify Calf Spring at all			\|	,
Cheyenne River	[?]	SD	W of River	Oligocene	Chadron Upper	Alligator bones	SD0124				\|	,
Eagle Butte	[?]	SD	in area outcrops	Cretaceous	Fox Hills	Pelecypods and gastropods in concretions.	SD0125	There are four Eagle Buttes in SD,Dewey Cy,Zeibach Cy,two in Jackson Cy			\|	,
Fox Hills[?]	[?]	SD	NW SD			pelecypod Crassostrea	SD0126	Can't locate Fox Hills			\|	,
Interior	[?]	SD	S			Petrified wood	SD0127				\|	,
Maple Creek[?]	[?]	SD		Cretaceous	Bearpaw Shale	Mollusks -- Cymella,Cephalopod,Placenticeras,Cephalopods -Baculites	SD0128	Can't identify a Maple Creek in South Dakota			\|	,

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