Beckerdite (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Clark County, Kansas (37.2° N, 99.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 98.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ogallala Group, Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• said to be early Hemphillian

Environment/lithology: fluvial; silty sandstone

• "slow moving river"
• "poorly sorted, medium-grained, silty sand"

Collection methods: specimens reposited in the Sternberg Museum of Natural History

Primary reference: G. A. Liggett. 1997. The Beckerdite local biota (early Hemphillian) and the first Tertiary occurrence of a crocodilian from Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 100(3-4):101-108 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18046: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Potamocypris sp.
said to be new
 Charales - Characea
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
 Boraginales - Boraginaceae
 Poales - Poaceae
Reptilia
 Loricata -
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian
VP-3191, VP-4721, VP-6586, and VP-6781 (teeth); VP-5790 and VP-12693 (scutes)
 Squamata -
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
 Testudines -
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pseudhipparion sp. Ameghino 1904 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
? Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858 camel
Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
 Carnivora - Felidae
Nimravides thinobates Macdonald 1948 cat
 Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon sp. Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
Borophagus sp. Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821 rodent
Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet. salamander
Gastropoda
 Stylommatophora - Helicodiscidae
 Stylommatophora - Zonitidae
cf. Hawaiia minuscula true glass snail
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Candonidae