Sappa Creek: Barstovian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulus sesquipedalis n. sp.
Cope 1878
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of Cope 1878 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras fossiger
(Cope 1878)
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= Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
(ID of Cope??) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Protohippus medius n. sp.
Cope 1892
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nomen dubium belonging to Merychippus (Protohippus) | ||||||||||
of Cope | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Dicotyles serus n. sp.
Cope 1877
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Cope 1877 | |||||||||
recombined as Prosthennops serus | ||||||||||
misspelt "servus" by Korth (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Ramoceros kansanus
Frick 1937
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synonym of Ramoceros osborni | ||||||||||
described by Frick 1937: dentition | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Tetralophodon campester
Cope 1877
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= Amebelodontidae indet.
Barbour 1927
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
original and current combination Amebelodontinae | ||||||||||
described by Barbour and Hibbard 1941: type of Cope; said to be an amebelodontid by Lambert and Shoshani 1998 | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Rawlins |
Coordinates: | 39.7° North, 100.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.3° North, 97.6° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Local age/stage: | Late/Upper Barstovian |
Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 15.97000 - 13.60000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Ogallala | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: said to be late Barstovian |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:1870's collections of Cope were augmented by F:AM parties in the 1930's |
Metadata
Database number: | 18360 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:43 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-06-17 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2143. | W. W. Korth. 2000. Review of Miocene (Hemingfordian to Clarendonian) mylagaulid rodents (Mammalia) from Nebraska. Annals of Carnegie Museum 69(4):227-280 [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] | |
37584 | E. D. Cope. 1877. Descriptions of New Vertebrata from the Upper Tertiary Formations of the West. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:219-231 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |