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- Title
A CENTURY OF ACADEMY OF SCIENCE PUBLICATIONS WITH RELEVANCE TO SOUTH DAKOTA'S WILD VERTEBRATE FAUNA AND FOSSILS.
- Authors
Higgins, Kenneth F.; Perkins, Lora B.; Parris, David C.; Stukel, Eileen Dowd
- Abstract
We examined the titles, abstracts, and texts of all past volumes of the Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science to determine how many articles contained information on wild vertebrate fauna species or on fossil evidence of prehistoric vertebrate fauna that have resided within the state at one time period or another. Frequency data are presented on the occurrence of species or fossil evidence of South Dakota's vertebrate fauna reported in various articles published in the Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science. However, quantification to the species or genus levels of taxonomy for some wild fauna groups and prehistoric fauna fossils was limited or absent, in part, due to sample sizes or limited expertise in specimen collection, preservation, and identification methodologies. Despite these limitations, several thousand wild fauna and fossil specimens that contain taxonomic labeling plus some collection location and habitat information currently exist in various repositories within South Dakota or elsewhere and are available for further research or study.
- Subjects
SOUTH Dakota; PALEONTOLOGY; FOSSIL snakes; CRETACEOUS paleontology
- Publication
Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science, 2015, Vol 94, p53
- ISSN
0096-378X
- Publication type
Article