Buis Ranch: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo riggsi Hibbard 1944
Oelrich 1957
synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida
as "Testudo turgida" (1 measurement)
Reptilia - Colubridae
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Brattstrom 1967
Heterodon plionasicus Peters 1953
Brattstrom 1967
Lampropeltis doliata
Brattstrom 1967
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus 1758
Brattstrom 1967
Elaphe buisi n. sp.
Holman 1973 131 specimens
singel individual
Elaphe cf. obsoleta (Say 1823)
Brattstrom 1967
"Elaphe near obsoleta"
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Crotalus cf. viridis Rafinesque 1818
Brattstrom 1967
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis rexroadensis Stephens 1959
    = Lynx rexroadensis Stephens 1959
Werdelin 1985
original and current combination Felis rexroadensis
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Buisnictis schoffi n. sp. Hibbard 1954
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pseudhipparion simpsoni Webb and Hulbert 1986
Hulbert et al. 2005
see also reference 1958
Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
discussed in footnote
Mammalia - Camelidae
Tanupolama vera (Matthew 1909)
    = Hemiauchenia vera Matthew 1909
Hibbard 1963
recombined as Pleiolama vera
"Camelidae indet."; new specimen from 1/2 mi NE of the main quarry but at the same level
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Catagonus brachydontus (Dalquest and Mooser 1980)
Wright 1989
recombined as Protherohyus brachydontus
Mammalia - Talpidae
Hesperoscalops sp. Hibbard 1941
synonym of Scalopus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus rexroadensis Hibbard 1941
    = Spermophilus rexroadensis Hibbard 1941
Taylor and Hibbard 1959
Citellus dotti n. sp. Hibbard 1954
(7 measurements)
    = Spermophilus dotti Hibbard 1954
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Prodipodomys sp. Hibbard 1939
Perognathus cf. mclaughlini Hibbard 1949
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Pliogeomys buisi n. sp. Hibbard 1954
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Beaver
Coordinates: 36.9° North, 100.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.2° North, 98.6° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hemphillian
Age range of interval:10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Meade Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:this is NOT in the Rexroad Fm., but rather in the Ogallala: Hibbard 1963c
"Vulpes sp." of Taylor and Hibbard 1959 is omitted in list of Taylor 1960
Metadata
Database number:18076
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Head Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Head
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2012-03-17 22:54:32
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1874. C. W. Hibbard. 1954. A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 39:339-359 [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]
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]
1888 C. W. Hibbard. 1963. Tanupolama vera (Matthew) from the Late Hemphillian of Beaver County, Oklahoma. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 66(2):267-269 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
45329 J. A. Holman. 1973. A new Pliocene snake, Genus Elaphe, from Oklahoma. Copeia 1973(3):574-580 [J. Head/J. Head]
1958 R. C. Hulbert, Jr., N. J. Czaplewski, and S. D. Webb. 2000. New records of Pseudhipparion Simpsoni (Equidae) from the latest Hemphillian of Oklahoma and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):50A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
31436 R. C. Hulbert, Jr., S. D. Webb, and N. J. Czaplewski. 2005. New records of Pseudhipparion simpsoni (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Hemphillian of Oklahoma and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):737-740 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
34314 T. M. Oelrich. 1957. The status of the Upper Pliocene turtle, Testudo turgida Cope. Journal of Paleontology 31(1):228-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3374 D. W. Taylor and C. W. Hibbard. 1959. unpublished MS [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3585 L. Werdelin. 1985. Small Pleistocene felines of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(3):194-210 [J. Alroy/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]