Bemis Quarry (Neogene of the United States)

Where: Ellis County, Kansas (38.9° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 97.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

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

• "late early Hemphilian" (Bever & Zakrzewski 2009)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. J. Zakrzewski. 1988. Preliminary report on fossil mammals from the Ogallala (Miocene) of north-central Kansas. Fort Hays Studies, Science, third series 10:117-127 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18055: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• single bed in a single quarry
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus sp., Astrohippus sp., Neohipparion sp.1
Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse
Astrohippus sp. Stirton 1940 horse
Neohipparion sp.1 Gidley 1903 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp.
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Megatylopus sp.
Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuinae indet.1
Tayassuinae indet.1 Palmer 1897 peccary
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Leptarctus woodburnei n. sp.2
Leptarctus woodburnei n. sp.2 Bever and Zakrzewski 2009 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon haydeni1
Epicyon haydeni1 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Talpidae indet.1
Talpidae indet.1 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole
1Alroy 2002; 2Bever and Zakrzewski 2009