Rexroad KU Locality 2: Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus sp.
Oken 1816
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= Marmotini indet.
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Hibbard 1941 | |||||||||
reported by Hibbard 1937g as "Cynomys sp." | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Procastoroides sweeti
Barbour and Schultz 1937
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Pliophenacomys primaevus n. sp.
(Hibbard 1937)
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see Hibbard 1937g | ||||||||||
Sigmodon intermedius n. sp.
Hibbard 1937
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= Sigmodon minor
Gidley 1922
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
see Hibbard 1937g | ||||||||||
Calomys (Bensonomys) eliasi n. sp.
(Hibbard 1937)
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= Bensonomys eliasi
Hibbard 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Calomys (Bensonomys) eliasi | ||||||||||
see Hibbard 1937g; probably includes "Eligmodontia arizonae" of Hibbard 1941b from "Locality 2" although no comparisons to C. eliasi are made | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Notolagus lepusculus
(Hibbard 1939)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex taylori n. sp.
Hibbard 1937
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see Hibbard 1937g | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Hesperoscalops rexroadi
Hibbard 1941
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recombined as Scalopus rexroadi | ||||||||||
not the type, contra Hibbard 1941a: Hibbard and Riggs 1949 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus peninsulatus
(Cope 1885)
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Plesippus sp.
Matthew 1924
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= Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus bicalcaratus
Cope 1893
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nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Hibbard 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Machairodus sp.
Kaup 1833
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= Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Hibbard 1950 | |||||||||
replaces ID of Hibbard 1941b; said to be either Machairodus Chasmaporthetes | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Felinae indet.
Trouessart 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Spilogale rexroadi
Hibbard 1941
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Hibbard 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis lepophagus
Johnston 1938
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 99.7° 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: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:Rexroad localities s. s. are all from the top 50' of the formation: Frye and Hibbard 1941 SE 1/4 NE 1/4 NW 1/4 sec 22 T 33 S R 29 W Hibbard 1970c omits several records described in earlier publications for unknown reasons; records found in at least two other papers are included here specifically, Pratilepus kansasensis, Nekrolagus progressus, and Hypolagus regalis of Hibbard 1941b are omitted in all later papers "Scalopus sp." of Hibbard 1941b is of uncertain status "Pliolemmus antiquus" of Hibbard 1941b is omitted in all later faunal lists "Pliopotamys meadensis" of Hibbard 1937g is actually from Deer Park, see Hibbard 1956a |
Metadata
Database number: | 19934 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-07-15 19:09:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1894. | C. W. Hibbard. 1970. in Dort and Jones [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
1849 | C. W. Hibbard. 1941. Mammals of the Rexroad Fauna From the Upper Pliocene of Southwestern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
1848 | C. W. Hibbard. 1941. New Mammals from the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 26(2):337-368 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
1860 | C. W. Hibbard. 1950. Mammals of the Rexroad Formation from Fox Canyon, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 8(6):113-192 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |