Jinglebob: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae
Scaphiopus (Spea) bombifrons (Cope 1863)
Tihen 1954
recombined as Spea bombifrons
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana pipiens Schreber 1782
Tihen 1954
Rana catesbeiana Shaw 1802
Tihen 1954
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854
Tihen 1954
"Bufo woodhousei woodhousei"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Hylidae
? Acris sp. Dumeril and Bibron 1841
Tihen 1954
    = Pseudacris triseriata Wied 1838
Chantell 1966
"Pseudacris triseriata cf. triseriata"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Ambystoma sp. (Tschudi 1838)
Tihen 1954
original and current combination Amblystoma
Reptilia - Colubridae
Lampropeltis doliata
Brattstrom 1967
? Lampropeltis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Brattstrom 1967
Lampropeltis getulus (Linnaeus 1766)
Brattstrom 1967
Lampropeltis calligaster (Harlan 1827)
Brattstrom 1967
Elaphe cf. obsoleta (Say 1823)
Brattstrom 1967
Pituophis cf. catenifer
Brattstrom 1967
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus 1758
Brattstrom 1967
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
Brattstrom 1967
    = Nerodia sp. Baird and Girard 1853
Alroy 2009
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Brattstrom 1967
Heterodon platyrhinos (Latreille 1801)
Brattstrom 1967
Heterodon nasicus Baird and Girard 1852
Brattstrom 1967
Reptilia - Scincidae
Eumeces sp. Wiegmann 1834
Tihen 1954
Reptilia - Anguidae
Ophisaurus attenuatus Cope 1880
Etheridge 1961 8 specimens
Reptilia - Iguanidae
? Sceloporus sp. Wiegmann 1828
Tihen 1954
? Holbrookia sp. Girard 1851
Tihen 1954
Reptilia - Testudines
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788
Tihen 1954
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus simus (Cope 1879)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale interrupta (Rafinesque 1820)
    = Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison latifrons (Harlan 1825)
see also McDonald 1981
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex cf. cinereus Kerr 1792
Blarina cf. brevicauda (Say 1823)
confirmed by Jones et al. 1984
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus adamsi n. sp. Hibbard 1955
    = Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928
see Hibbard 1954a
Oryzomys fossilis n. sp. Hibbard 1955
    = Oryzomys palustris Harlan 1837
Alroy 2002
Onychomys jinglebobensis n. sp. Hibbard 1955
    = Onychomys pedroensis Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Peromyscus cochrani n. sp. Hibbard 1955
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus 1766)
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815)
Pedomys ochrogaster (Wagner 1842)
recombined as Microtus ochrogaster
Reithrodontomys cf. montanus (Baird 1855)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
    = Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys cf. ordii Woodhouse 1853
Perognathus hispidus Baird 1858
    = Chaetodipus hispidus Baird 1858
Alroy 2002
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875
additional "Perognathus sp."
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Meade
Coordinates: 37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 100.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Sangamonian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kingsdown
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Sangamonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:said to be Sangamonian by Hibbard and Taylor and most later authors but either "an early phase of the Wisconsinan" or late Sangamonian by Kurten and Anderson 1980
stratigraphic position is not clear
Metadata
Database number:20605
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Head Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Head
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:46:40
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
1907. C. W. Hibbard and D. W. Taylor. 1960. Two Late Pleistocene Faunas from Southwestern Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 16(1):1-223 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
29343 J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
30836 B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
25726 C. J. Chantell. 1966. Late Cenozoic hylids from the Great Plains. Herpetologica 22(4):259-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
91575% 37560R. Etheridge. 1961. Late Cenozoic glass lizards (Ophiosaurus) from the Southern Great Plains. Herpetologica 17(3):179-186 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]
15074 J. A. Holman. 1970. Herpetofauna of the Wood Mountain Formation (Upper Miocene) of Saskatchewan. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 7:1317-1325 [J. Head/J. Head]
25727 J. A. Tihen. 1954. A Kansas Pleistocene herpetofauna. Copeia 1954(3-4):217-221 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]