Sanders (UM-K2-53) ( of the United States)
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: Missler Member (Ballard Formation), Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: 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]more details
PaleoDB collection 19938: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• most or all of this material is from UM-K2-53 because the duplicate list of Taylor 1960 excludes material from UM-K1-53
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Reptilia | |
Thamnophis cf. sauritus2 garter snake "Thamnophis near sauritus" from "Sanders" (possibly UM-K1-53 instead)
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Mammalia | |
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"Bensonomys meadensis n. sp." = Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis, "Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor3, Pliolemmus antiquus, "Ophiomys meadensis" = Pliophenacomys meadensis1
"Bensonomys meadensis n. sp." = Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis Hibbard 1956 rodent
Pliolemmus antiquus Hibbard 1937 rodent | |
Zapus sandersi n. sp.
Zapus sandersi n. sp. Hibbard 1956 jumping mouse | |
Geomys tobinensis Hibbard 1944 pocket gopher | |
Perognathus cf. pearlettensis Hibbard 1941 pocket mouse
Prodipodomys sp. Hibbard 1939 rodent | |
Sorex sandersi n. sp.
Sorex sandersi n. sp. Hibbard 1956 long-tailed shrew | |
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