Hamburg Research Area: Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Hystricops sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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| original and current combination Hystrix (Hystricops) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Tamias sp.
Illinger 1811
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= Tamiini indet.
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| synonym of Marmotini | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Copemys sp.
Wood 1936
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Peraceras sp.
Cope 1880
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= Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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= Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Astrohippus sp.
(Stirton 1940)
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| original and current combination Pliohippus (Astrohippus) | ||||||||||
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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| probably OK | ||||||||||
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Neohipparion sp.
Gidley 1903
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= Hipparionini indet.
Quinn 1955
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Pseudhipparion sp.
Ameghino 1904
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Hypohippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
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| original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Bassariscus ogallalae
Hibbard 1933
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Bever 2003 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Leptocyon sp.
Matthew 1918
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Ellis |
| Coordinates: | 39.0° North, 99.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.4° North, 96.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian - Early/Lower Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 20 cm bed | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandy siltstone |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:from four localities in a 30 cm sandy silt bed the overlying Zehr's Loc. 2 yielded "a small species of Peraceras, or a primitive species of Aphelops" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Locality 1; Unit D, Quarry A of Zehr 1974 | ||
| Database number: | 18187 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2005-05-05 20:00:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3794. | 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] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 13453 | G. S. Bever. 2003. New record of Bassariscus ogallalae (Carnivora: Procyonidae) from the Ogallala Group (Miocene) of Ellis County, Kansas, with comments on variation within Bassariscus. Southwestern Naturalist 48(2):249-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |