Keller: Clarendonian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Eucastor sp. Allen 1877
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
"? Aphelops" and "? Teleoceras"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
    = Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2002
and "Hipparion/Cormohipparion
Pseudhipparion sp. Ameghino 1904
Calippus regulus Johnston 1937
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
probably OK
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
large and small forms
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras sp. Matthew 1918
    = Cranioceratini indet. Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
based on Thomasson et al. 1990, Zakrzewski appears to include Pediomeryx in Cranioceras
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
    = Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Nimravides sp. Kitts 1958
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Leptocyon sp. Matthew 1918
Tomarctus sp. Cope 1873
    = Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945
Alroy 2002
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Ellis
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 99.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.3° North, 96.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:13.60000 - 10.30000 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:from a 3 m interval
Metadata
Database number:18219
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-20 13:08:20
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 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]