Keefe Canyon: Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon successor
(Cope 1892)
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= Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut adamsi
(Hibbard 1944)
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Mammut americanum
Kerr 1792
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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= Megalonyx cf. leptostomus
Cope 1893
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Hibbard 1950 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Dipoides rexroadensis n. sp.
Hibbard and Riggs 1949
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Procastoroides lanei
(Hibbard 1937)
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= Procastoroides sweeti
Barbour and Schultz 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys quinni
McGrew 1944
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= Geomys jacobi
Hibbard 1967
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Hibbard 1967 | |||||||||
individual specimens not mentioned | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Parahodomys quadriplicatus
Hibbard 1941
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= Neotoma quadriplicata
Hibbard 1941
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Ogmodontomys poaphagus
Hibbard 1941
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described by Zakrzewski 1967a | ||||||||||
Symmetrodontomys simplicidens
Hibbard 1941
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Notolagus lepusculus
(Hibbard 1939)
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confirmed by White 1991a | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Borophagus diversidens
Cope 1892
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confirmed by Wang et al. 1999: "B. sp." of Dalquest 1969a | ||||||||||
Canis lepophagus
Johnston 1938
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Buisnictis breviramus
(Hibbard 1941)
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Taxidea cf. taxus
(Schreber 1778)
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Martes foxi n. sp.
Hibbard and Riggs 1949
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus spatulus
(Cope 1893)
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Pliauchenia cochrani n. sp.
Hibbard and Riggs 1949
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
= Megatylopus cochrani
Hibbard and Riggs 1949
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Hemiauchenia blancoensis
(Meade 1945)
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= Hemiauchenia macrocephala
Cope 1893
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
= Hemiauchenia blancoensis
Meade 1945
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Jimenez-Hidalgo and Carranza-Castaneda 2010 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus bicalcaratus
Cope 1893
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nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus | ||||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Notiosorex jacksoni
Hibbard 1950
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Hibbard 1953 | |||||||||
in part | ||||||||||
Blarina adamsi
Hibbard 1953
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= Cryptotis adamsi
Hibbard 1953
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Hibbard 1953 | |||||||||
"? Sorex sp." in part | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Hesperoscalops rexroadi
Hibbard 1941
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recombined as Scalopus rexroadi | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 99.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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:no more than 23.5 feet below the "massive caliche zone" and 63 feet below the top of the formation SW 1/4 SW 1/4 sec 34 T 34 S R 30 W Stegomastodon apparently is not from Loc. 22; see Hibbard 1950 |
Metadata
Also known as: | UK Locality 22 | ||
Database number: | 19932 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | 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:
1905. | C. W. Hibbard and E. S. Riggs. 1949. Upper Pliocene Vertebrates From Keefe Canyon, Meade County, Kansas. Geological Society America Bulletin 60(5):829-860 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1860 | C. W. Hibbard. 1950. Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 8(6):113-192 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
1869 | C. W. Hibbard. 1953. The Saw Rock Canyon fauna [Kansas] and its stratigraphic significance. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 38:387-411 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1890 | C. W. Hibbard. 1967. New rodents from the late Cenozoic of Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52:115-131 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
51772 | E. Jimenez-Hidalgo and O. Carranza-Castaneda. 2010. Blancan Camelids From San Miguel De Allende, Guanajuato, Central Mexico. Journal of Paleontology 84(1):51-65 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] |