PBDB Collection

Edson: Hemphillian, Kansas
collected by H. T. Martin 1924

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	Adelphailurus kansensis n. sp. Hibbard 1934
	(3 measurements)

	Machairodus cf. catocopis Cope 1887
	(1 measurement)
	= Machairodus coloradensis Cook 1922	Harrison 1983
	recombined as Amphimachairodus coloradensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Agriotherium sp. Wagner 1837	Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Pliotaxidea nevadensis (Butterworth 1916)	Harrison 1983

	Brachypsalis marshalli n. sp. Martin 1928	Martin 1928
	recombined as Plesiogulo marshalli
	(5 measurements)

	Plesiogulo marshalli (Martin 1928)	Hibbard 1939
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae

	Martinogale alveodens Hall 1930
	(2 measurements)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Leptocyon shermanensis n. sp. Hibbard 1937
	(7 measurements)
	= Eucyon davisi Merriam 1911	Hibbard 1937
	"Vulpes cf. vafer"

	Hyaenognathus cyonoides n. sp. Martin 1928	Martin 1928
	synonym of Borophagus secundus
	see Stirton and VanderHoof 1933, Wang et al. 1999

	Osteoborus cyonoides (Martin 1928)	Hibbard 1939
	synonym of Borophagus secundus
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Pliauchenia sp. Cope 1875
	= Hemiauchenia vera Matthew 1909	Harrison 1983
	recombined as Pleiolama vera

	Megatylopus gigas (Matthew and Cook 1909)

	Alforjas taylori Harrison 1979	Harrison 1983
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Platygonus serus
	= Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848	Wright 1989
	"P. rex" of Harrison 1983; actually a new species; see also Wright 1998
	= Platygonus pollenae Prothero and Grenader 2012	Prothero and Grenader 2012
	synonym of Platygonus brachirostris

	Prosthennops serus (Cope 1877)	Hibbard 1939
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Texoceros cf. guymonensis Frick 1937	Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
	= Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927	Prothero et al. 1989
	replaces ID of Harrison 1983
	= Teleoceras guymonense Prothero 2005	Prothero 2005
	F:AM 116025A-B

	Aphelops cf. mutilus Matthew 1924
	confirmed by Prothero et al. 1989
	= Aphelops mutilus Matthew 1924	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Pliohippus cf. pernix Marsh 1874
	= Dinohippus leidyanus Osborn 1918	Harrison 1983

	Calippus ansae (Matthew and Stirton 1930)
	= Astrohippus ansae Matthew and Stirton 1930	Alroy 2002

	Hipparion cf. montezumae (Leidy 1882)
	= Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926	Harrison 1983

	Neohipparion cf. eurystyle (Cope 1893)	Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Talpidae

	Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)	Hibbard 1939
	said by Hutchison 1968 to be Scalopus, but this could also be Hesperoscalops
Mammalia - Lagomorpha

	Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885	Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae

	Dipodomys kansensis n. sp. Hibbard 1937
	= Prodipodomys kansensis Hibbard 1937	Hibbard 1937

	Perognathus dunklei n. sp. Hibbard 1939	Hibbard 1939
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae

	Kansasimys dubius Wood 1936	Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Peromyscus martini n. sp. Hibbard 1937
	= Onychomys martini Hibbard 1937	Hibbard 1937

	? Oryzomys pliocaenicus n. sp. Hibbard 1939	Hibbard 1939
	nomen dubium belonging to Bensonomys
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae

	Mylagaulus monodon Cope 1881
	= Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881	Korth 2000
Reptilia - Podicipediformes - Podicipedidae

	Colymbus nigricollis (Brehm 1831)	Hibbard 1939
	original and current combination Podiceps nigricollis
Reptilia - Gruiformes - Gruidae

	Grus nannodes n. sp. Wetmore and Martin 1930	Wetmore and Martin 1930
	UK specimen from "the Pliocene deposits of Sherman County"
Reptilia - Passeriformes - Corvidae

	Corvidae indet. Vigors 1825	Hibbard 1939
Reptilia - Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae

	Scolopacidae indet. Rafinesque 1815	Hibbard 1939
Reptilia - Testudines - Cheloniidae

	Chelonia sp. Brongniart 1800	Hibbard 1939
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758	Hibbard 1939
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae

	Bufo arenarius Taylor 1936	Hibbard 1939

	Bufo hibbardi Taylor 1936	Hibbard 1939
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Pelobatidae

	Scaphiopus pliobatrachus Taylor 1936	Hibbard 1939
	recombined as Spea pliobatrachus
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela

	Plioambystoma kansensis Adams and Martin 1929	Hibbard 1939
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Kansas	County:	Sherman
Coordinates:	39.3° North, 101.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	39.6° North, 100.0° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Neogene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
Key time interval:	Hemphillian
Age range of interval:	9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collectors:	H. T. Martin	Collection dates:	1924
Collection method comments: collection information pertains to Grus nannodes
Taxonomic list comments:see also Harrison 1983 "Sciurus sp." is omitted by Harrison 1983

Metadata

Also known as:	Edson Beds; North Quarry
Database number:	18140
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, A. Dunhill, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot, B. Allen
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2007-08-16 23:43:43
Access level:	the public	Released:	1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1835.

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C. W. Hibbard. 1934. Two new genera of Felidae from the middle Pliocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 37:239-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1800		J. A. Harrison. 1983. The Carnivora of the Edson local fauna (late Hemphillian), Kansas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 54:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
1839		C. W. Hibbard. 1937. Notes on Some Vertebrates from the Pleistocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 40:233-237 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1842		C. W. Hibbard. 1939. Notes on Additional Fauna of Edson Quarry of the Middle Pliocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 42:457-462 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. van den Hoek Ostende]
2143		W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
34707		H. T. Martin. 1928. Two new carnivores from the Pliocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 9(3):233-236 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
51449		D. R. Prothero and J. Grenader. 2012. A New Primitive Species of the Flat-Headed Peccary Platygonus (Tayassuidae, Artiodactyla, Mammalia) from the Late Miocene of the High Plains. Journal of Paleontology 86(6):1021-1031 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
6274		D. R. Prothero, C. Guerin, and E. Manning. 1989. The history of the Rhinocerotoidea. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls 321-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
24879		A. Wetmore and H. T. Martin. 1930. A fossil crane from the Pliocene of Kansas. The Condor 32(1):62-63 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3774		D. B. Wright. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of Catagonus wagneri: sister taxa from the Tertiary of North America. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy 281-308 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]