Where: Ellis County, Kansas (38.9° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 97.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Ogallala Group, Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• "late early Hemphilian" (Bever & Zakrzewski 2009)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. J. Zakrzewski. 1988. Preliminary report on fossil mammals from the Ogallala (Miocene) of north-central Kansas. Fort Hays Studies, Science, third series 10:117-127 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18055: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros | |
Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse
Astrohippus sp. Stirton 1940 horse | |
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Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel | |
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Leptarctus woodburnei n. sp.2
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