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This is an insightful first-hand 1923 summary by Harold Rollin Wanless of his 1920–1922 field seasons in the White River Badlands of South Dakota. He provides not only the goals and achievements of the geologic and fossil collecting aspects but also a look at the nature of the landscape, homesteading families, Native Americans, climate, birds, wildlife, and plants.
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Titanotheres occur in the Chadron Formation, not the Brule Formation. Recent radiometric dating shows that they went extinct essentially at the Eocene/Oligocene boundary.
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Wanless, H.R., Evanoff, E. (2023). Fossil Hunting in the Badlands of South Dakota by Harold Rollin Wanless, 1923. In: The Diaries of a Bonedigger. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25118-4_1
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