Rexroad KU Locality 2: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
    = Marmotini indet.
Hibbard 1941
reported by Hibbard 1937g as "Cynomys sp."
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Procastoroides sweeti Barbour and Schultz 1937
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Pliophenacomys primaevus n. sp. (Hibbard 1937)
see Hibbard 1937g
Sigmodon intermedius n. sp. Hibbard 1937
    = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
see Hibbard 1937g
Calomys (Bensonomys) eliasi n. sp. (Hibbard 1937)
    = Bensonomys eliasi Hibbard 1937
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
Notolagus lepusculus (Hibbard 1939)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex taylori n. sp. Hibbard 1937
see Hibbard 1937g
Mammalia - Talpidae
Hesperoscalops rexroadi Hibbard 1941
recombined as Scalopus rexroadi
not the type, contra Hibbard 1941a: Hibbard and Riggs 1949
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus peninsulatus (Cope 1885)
Plesippus sp. Matthew 1924
    = Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893
nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
Hibbard 1941
Mammalia - Carnivora
Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833
    = Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Hibbard 1950
replaces ID of Hibbard 1941b; said to be either Machairodus Chasmaporthetes
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Felinae indet. Trouessart 1885
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale rexroadi Hibbard 1941
Hibbard 1941
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938
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
Formation:Rexroad Member:upper
Local section:Meade Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
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]