PBDB Collection

White Rock Wilson Loc.: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Equus cf. simplicidens Cope 1892
	recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Sorex aff. sandersi Hibbard 1956

	Blarina aff. carolinensis (Bachman 1837)
	= Blarina cf. brevicauda Say 1823	Jones et al. 1984
	"tentatively" this species
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Hypolagus cf. furlongi Gazin 1934
	= Hypolagus voorhiesi White 1988	White 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Spermophilus boothi Hibbard 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae

	Zapodidae indet. Coues 1875
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
	OK, see Zakrzewski 1984

	Ophiomys meadensis (Hibbard 1956)
	original and current combination Pliophenacomys meadensis

	Nebraskomys mcgrewi Hibbard 1957

	Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
	= Guildayomys hibbardi Zakrzewski 1984	Zakrzewski 1984
	in part

	Synaptomys rinkeri Hibbard 1956
	= Plioctomys cf. rinkeri Hibbard 1956	Alroy 2002

	Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922

	Ogmodontomys sp. Hibbard 1941
	= Hibbardomys marthae Zakrzewski 1984	Zakrzewski 1984

	Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
	= Hibbardomys voorhiesi Zakrzewski 1984	Zakrzewski 1984
	in part

	Neotoma taylori Hibbard 1967
	= Neotoma leucopetrica Zakrzewski 1991	Zakrzewski 1991
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae

	Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Kansas	County:	Republic
Coordinates:	39.9° North, 97.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	40.0° North, 97.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time


10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Pliocene
Key time interval:	Blancan
Age range of interval:	4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Metadata

Also known as:	UM-K1-66
Database number:	19941
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1460.

R. E. Eshelman. 1975. Geology and Paleontology of the Early Pleistocene (Late Blancan) White Rock Fauna from North-Central Kansas. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 13:1-60 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2046		C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3632		J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3792		R. J. Zakrzewski. 1984. New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3796		R. J. Zakrzewski. 1991. New Species of Blancan Woodrat (Cricetidae) from North-Central Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 72(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]