Angell Member ( of the United States)

Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.3° N, 99.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ballard Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1956. Vertebrate fossils from the Meade Formation of southwestern Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 41(41):145-203 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]more details

PaleoDB collection 19924: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

• most taxa or all taxa are present in the Sanders pit below the Sanders fauna, but much of the material came from two localities in Clark Co.
originally placed in the "Meade gravels member" of the "Meade formation"; revised terminology follows Hibbard 1958a
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere
from Meade and Clark Cos.
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus (? Asinus) sp." = Equus, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens, Nannippus peninsulatus
"Equus (? Asinus) sp." = Equus Linnaeus 1758 horse
from the Sanders gravel pit
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
from the Sanders gravel pit
Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
locality not stated