Also known as upper Unit A
Where: Trego County, Kansas (39.1° N, 99.8° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 97.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Ogallala Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
• "fossils randomly distributed" throughout a unit about 13 feet thick; underlies UM-K6-59 (see)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; pebbly, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), sieve,
• Nettion specimen was collected by Claude W. Hibbard and Jerry Paulson, August 2, 1959
Primary reference: R. L. Wilson. 1968. Systematics and faunal analysis of a Lower Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from Trego County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 22(7):75-126 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18449: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Meg Hall
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Calippus martini4, Neohipparion cf. affine, cf. Pseudhipparion sp.1, Hippotherium sp.1, Nannippus sp.4
Neohipparion cf. affine Leidy 1869 hipparionine horse | |
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"Eucastor phillisi n. sp." = Prodipoides phillisi
"Eucastor phillisi n. sp." = Prodipoides phillisi Wilson 1968 beaver | |
Reptilia | |
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Aves | |
Nettion ogallalae n. sp.2
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Actinopteri | |
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