Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 99.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: upper Member (Rexroad Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1970. in Dort and Jones [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 19936: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos, Patricia Holroyd and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•W 1/2 SW 1/4 sec 22 T 33 S R 29 W
•"Baiomys rexroadi" appears to be a lapsus as the type is actually from Locality 2a: Hibbard 1950
•may include UMMP Protocitta ajax specimen of Brodkorb 1972 from "Rexroad Formation... at Rexroad Ranch"
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Pliogyps fisheri n. gen. n. sp.11
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Reptilia | |
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Coluber constrictor4, Lampropeltis getulus4, Elaphe obsoleta4, Nerodia sp.2, Thamnophis sp.4, Heterodon plionasicus4, Heterodon platyrhinos4
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"Testudo rexroadensis" = Hesperotestudo orthopygia7
"Testudo rexroadensis" = Hesperotestudo orthopygia7 Cope 1878 turtle UMMP 9399 (paratype), parts of a carapace and a complete plastron
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Mammalia | |
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Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
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Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse | |
Buisnictis breviramus n. sp., Spilogale rexroadi n. sp.
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Procyon rexroadensis n. sp., Bassariscus casei n. sp.
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Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 American badger
Satherium piscinarium Leidy 1873 otter gender corrected by Bjork 1973; Bjork also lists "S. ingens"; (2+1)
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"Hesperoscalops rexroadi" = Scalopus rexroadi
"Hesperoscalops rexroadi" = Scalopus rexroadi Hibbard 1941 mole | |
Sorex taylori Hibbard 1937 long-tailed shrew | |
Nekrolagus progressus n. sp., Hypolagus ringoldensis13, Hypolagus regalis n. sp., Notolagus lepusculus n. sp., Pratilepus kansasensis n. sp.
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Nebraskomys rexroadensis5, "Bensonomys eliasi" = Calomys (Bensonomys) eliasi1, Neotoma quadriplicata n. sp., Onychomys gidleyi n. sp., Ogmodontomys poaphagus n. sp., Symmetrodontomys simplicidens n. sp., Peromyscus baumgartneri n. sp., Peromyscus kansasensis n. sp., Sigmodon minor1
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Spermophilus howelli n. sp., Spermophilus rexroadensis n. sp.
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Dipoides rexroadensis Hibbard and Riggs 1949 beaver
Procastoroides sweeti Barbour and Schultz 1937 beaver | |
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Perognathus gidleyi Hibbard 1941 pocket mouse | |
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Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate | |
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