Dixon: Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Pliopotamys meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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= Ondatra meadensis
Hibbard 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| questioned by Koenigswald and Martin 1984 | ||||||||||
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Pliophenacomys meadensis
Hibbard 1956
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= Hibbardomys fayae n. sp.
Zakrzewski 1984
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Zakrzewski 1984 | |||||||||
| in part, and possibly including all Dixon specimens | ||||||||||
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Pliophenacomys dixonensis n. sp.
Zakrzewski 1984
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Zakrzewski 1984 | |||||||||
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Nebraskomys mcgrewi
Hibbard 1957
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Skinner and Hibbard 1972 | |||||||||
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Synaptomys rinkeri n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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= Plioctomys rinkeri
Hibbard 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Pliolemmus antiquus
Hibbard 1937
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus sp.
Oken 1816
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= Marmotini indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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? Procastoroides sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1937
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Soricidae indet.
Fischer 1814
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Blarina sp.
Gray 1838
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= Blarina cf. brevicauda
Say 1823
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Jones et al. 1984 | |||||||||
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Sorex leahyi n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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Sorex dixonensis n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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= Planisorex dixonensis
Hibbard 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Elaphe sp.
Wagler 1833
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Kingman |
| Coordinates: | 37.5° North, 98.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 97.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:two separate sites on one farm according to later authors; not the same as Norwich |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19930 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1876. | 5% 37600 | C. W. Hibbard. 1956. Vertebrate fossils from the Meade Formation of southwestern Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 41(41):145-203 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 30836 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2046 | C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 6254 | M. F. Skinner and C. W. Hibbard. 1972. Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 148(1):1-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3792 | R. J. Zakrzewski. 1984. New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |