Buis Ranch: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Oklahoma
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Cricetidae indet.
Fischer von Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus dotti n. sp.
Hibbard 1954
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(7 measurements) | ||||||||||
= Spermophilus dotti
Hibbard 1954
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Citellus rexroadensis
Hibbard 1941
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= Spermophilus rexroadensis
Hibbard 1941
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Taylor and Hibbard 1959 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Pliogeomys buisi n. sp.
Hibbard 1954
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Prodipodomys sp.
Hibbard 1939
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Perognathus cf. mclaughlini
Hibbard 1949
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Buisnictis schoffi n. sp.
Hibbard 1954
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis rexroadensis
Stephens 1959
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= Lynx rexroadensis
Stephens 1959
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Werdelin 1985 | |||||||||
original and current combination Felis rexroadensis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Pseudhipparion simpsoni
Webb and Hulbert 1986
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Hulbert et al. 2005 | |||||||||
see also reference 1958 | ||||||||||
Nannippus sp.
(Matthew 1926)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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discussed in footnote | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Tanupolama vera
(Matthew 1909)
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= Hemiauchenia vera
Matthew 1909
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Hibbard 1963 | |||||||||
recombined as Pleiolama vera | ||||||||||
"Camelidae indet."; new specimen from 1/2 mi NE of the main quarry but at the same level | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Catagonus brachydontus
(Dalquest and Mooser 1980)
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Wright 1989 | |||||||||
recombined as Protherohyus brachydontus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Hesperoscalops sp.
Hibbard 1941
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synonym of Scalopus | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo riggsi
Hibbard 1944
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Oelrich 1957 | |||||||||
synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida | ||||||||||
as "Testudo turgida" (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus cf. viridis
Rafinesque 1818
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Heterodon plionasicus
Peters 1953
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Coluber constrictor
Linnaeus 1758
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Lampropeltis doliata
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
Elaphe buisi n. sp.
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Holman 1973 | 131 specimens | ||||||||
singel individual | ||||||||||
Elaphe cf. obsoleta
(Say 1823)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Elaphe near obsoleta" | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Beaver |
Coordinates: | 36.9° North, 100.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 98.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | ||
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Hemphillian | ||
Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Local section: | Meade | Local bed: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:this is NOT in the Rexroad Fm., but rather in the Ogallala: Hibbard 1963c "Vulpes sp." of Taylor and Hibbard 1959 is omitted in list of Taylor 1960 |
Metadata
Database number: | 18076 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Head | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Head |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2012-03-17 22:54:32 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1874. | C. W. Hibbard. 1954. A New Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna From Oklahoma. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 39:339-359 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
30836 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1888 | C. W. Hibbard. 1963. Tanupolama vera (Matthew) from the Late Hemphillian of Beaver County, Oklahoma. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 66(2):267-269 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
45329 | J. A. Holman. 1973. A new Pliocene snake, Genus Elaphe, from Oklahoma. Copeia 1973(3):574-580 [J. Head/J. Head] | |
1958 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr., N. J. Czaplewski, and S. D. Webb. 2000. New records of Pseudhipparion Simpsoni (Equidae) from the latest Hemphillian of Oklahoma and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):50A [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
31436 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr., S. D. Webb, and N. J. Czaplewski. 2005. New records of Pseudhipparion simpsoni (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Hemphillian of Oklahoma and Florida. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25(3):737-740 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
34314 | T. M. Oelrich. 1957. The status of the Upper Pliocene turtle, Testudo turgida Cope. Journal of Paleontology 31(1):228-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3374 | D. W. Taylor and C. W. Hibbard. 1959. unpublished MS [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3585 | L. Werdelin. 1985. Small Pleistocene felines of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(3):194-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
3774 | D. B. Wright. 1989. Phylogenetic relationships of Catagonus wagneri: sister taxa from the Tertiary of North America. Advances in Neotropical Mammalogy 281-308 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |