Sappa Creek: Barstovian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulus sesquipedalis n. sp. Cope 1878
of Cope 1878
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
    = Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Alroy 2002
(ID of Cope??)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Protohippus medius n. sp. Cope 1892
nomen dubium belonging to Merychippus (Protohippus)
of Cope
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Dicotyles serus n. sp. Cope 1877
Cope 1877
recombined as Prosthennops serus
misspelt "servus" by Korth (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Ramoceros kansanus Frick 1937
synonym of Ramoceros osborni
described by Frick 1937: dentition
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Tetralophodon campester Cope 1877
    = Amebelodontidae indet. Barbour 1927
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]