Where: Phillips County, Kansas (40.0° N, 99.5° W: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 97.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ogallala Formation, Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
• apparently from the Republican River Beds = Ogallala Formation
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J. Blick; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: W. W. Korth and J. A. Baskin. 2009. A new species of Leptarctus (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the late Clarendonian (late Miocene) of Kansas. Annals of Carnegie Museum 78(1):29-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 110829: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.06.2011, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Leptarctus kansasensis n. sp." = Leptarctus wortmani
"Leptarctus kansasensis n. sp." = Leptarctus wortmani Matthew 1924 mustelid carnivore | |
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