Minium Quarry: Hemphillian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
|
||||||||||
|
Torynobelodon loomisi
Barbour 1929
|
||||||||||
|
= Platybelodon loomisi
Barbour 1929
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
|
||||||||||
|
Teleoceras fossiger
(Cope 1878)
|
||||||||||
|
Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
|
||||||||||
|
Cormohipparion occidentale
(Leidy 1856)
|
||||||||||
|
= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Neohipparion leptode
Merriam 1915
|
||||||||||
|
Calippus informal large
|
||||||||||
| original and current combination Protohippus (Calippus) | ||||||||||
|
Protohippus sp.
(Leidy 1858)
|
||||||||||
| reassigned as Merychippus (Protohippus) | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
|
||||||||||
|
Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
|
||||||||||
|
= Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
|
||||||||||
|
Pediomeryx sp.
Stirton 1936
|
||||||||||
| "Cranioceras (Yumaceras) sp." | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
|
||||||||||
|
Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
|
||||||||||
|
= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Camelidae
|
||||||||||
|
Hemiauchenia cf. vera
(Matthew 1909)
|
||||||||||
| recombined as Pleiolama vera | ||||||||||
|
Procamelus sp.
Leidy 1858
|
||||||||||
| said to be new | ||||||||||
|
Megatylopus cf. gigas
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
|
||||||||||
|
Nimravides cf. thinobates
(Macdonald 1948)
|
||||||||||
| "Nimravides cf. N. catacopis" | ||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
|
||||||||||
|
Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
|
||||||||||
|
Epicyon sp.
(Leidy 1858)
|
||||||||||
| original and current combination Canis (Epicyon) | ||||||||||
|
Osteoborus sp.
Stirton and VanderHoof 1933
|
||||||||||
|
= Borophagus sp.
Cope 1892
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
|
||||||||||
|
Ursidae indet.
Gray 1825
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
|
||||||||||
|
Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Talpidae
|
||||||||||
|
Scalopus sp.
Geoffroy 1803
|
||||||||||
|
= Talpidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
|
||||||||||
|
Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
|
||||||||||
|
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
|
||||||||||
|
Hypolagus vetus
(Kellogg 1910)
|
||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Graham |
| Coordinates: | 39.3° North, 99.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.6° North, 98.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | ||
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Hemphillian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
| Database number: | 18263 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:23:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3405. | J. R. Thomasson, R. J. Zakrzewski, H. E. LaGarry and D. E. Mergen. 1990. A late Miocene (late early Hemphillian) biota from northwestern Kansas. National Geograpic Research 6(2):231-244 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |