West of Phillipsburg (Miocene of the United States)
Where: Phillips County, Kansas (39.8° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 97.7° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1942. The occurrence of Eucastor tortus Leidy in Phillips County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 45:248-252 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18462: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• this is not the same as Long Island Quarry
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| Mammalia | |
"Serridentinus sp." = Gomphotherium
"Serridentinus sp." = Gomphotherium Burmeister 1837 gomphothere | |
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Teleoceras fossiger Cope 1878 rhinoceros | |