Rhino Hill Quarry: Hemphillian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Platybelodon sp.
Borissiak 1928
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= Amebelodon britti
Lambert 1990
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Lambert 1990 | |||||||||
| recombined as Konobelodon britti | ||||||||||
| "A. fricki" of Barbour and Hibbard 1941; this is very clearly the specimen referred to "P. sp." by Voorhies and Brown 1993 without reference to A. britti | ||||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Centrarchiformes
- Centrarchidae
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Chaenobryttus kansasensis
Hibbard 1936
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Hibbard and Dunkle 1942 | |||||||||
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Pomoxis lanei
Hibbard 1936
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Hibbard and Dunkle 1942 | |||||||||
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Actinopteri
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Fundulidae
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Fundulus detillae n. sp.
Hibbard and Dunkle 1942
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Hibbard and Dunkle 1942 | |||||||||
| University of Kansas Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology, no. 848F (holotype), complete but imperfectly impressed fish in counterpart | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Pelobatidae
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Scaphiopus studeri
Taylor 1938
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Hibbard and Dunkle 1942 | |||||||||
| recombined as Spea studeri | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursidae indet.
Gray 1825
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Osteoborus cyonoides
(Martin 1928)
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= Borophagus pugnator
Cook 1922
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Canis davisi
Merriam 1911
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= Eucyon davisi
Merriam 1911
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Machairodus coloradensis
Cook 1922
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| recombined as Amphimachairodus coloradensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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= Tayassuinae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Pediomeryx hemphillensis
Stirton 1936
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Texoceros sp.
Frick 1937
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Titanotylopus sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1934
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| could be Gigantocamelus, Megacamelus, etc. | ||||||||||
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Hemiauchenia vera
(Matthew 1909)
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| recombined as Pleiolama vera | ||||||||||
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Megatylopus matthewi
Webb 1965
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Alforjas taylori
Harrison 1979
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Neohipparion cf. eurystyle
(Cope 1893)
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Nannippus cf. lenticularis
(Cope 1893)
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| synonym of Cormohipparion ingenuum | ||||||||||
| "lenticulare" | ||||||||||
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Dinohippus interpolatus
(Cope 1893)
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Astrohippus ansae
(Matthew and Stirton 1930)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Prothero 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun.: "T. fossiger"; said to be the same as the new Optima species | ||||||||||
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Aphelops mutilus
Matthew 1924
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Wallace |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 101.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.2° North, 100.0° 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
| Formation: | Ogallala |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:based on a 1978 master's thesis by Bennett stratigraphic position relative to Edson unknown according to Harrison, but Bennett 1979 claims that Edson is several meters lower |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18342 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | J. Alroy, B. Allen |
| 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:
| 1800. | J. A. Harrison. 1983. The Carnivora of the Edson local fauna (late Hemphillian), Kansas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 54:1-42 [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] | |
| 67481 | C. W. Hibbard and D. H. Dunkle. 1942. A New Species of Cyprinidontid Fish from the Middle Pliocene of Kansas. Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 41(7) [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] | |
| 2200 | W. D. Lambert. 1990. Rediagnosis of the Genus Amebelodon (Mammalia, Proboscidea, Gomphotheriidae), with a New Subgenus and Species, Amebelodon (Konobelodon) britti. Journal of Paleontology 64(6):1032-1040 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 6328 | D. R. Prothero. 1989. Personal communication regarding rhinocerotid identifications. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |