PBDB Collection

Jack Swayze Quarry: Hemphillian, Kansas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.; may equal Amebelodon sp. reported by Barbour & Hibbard 1941 from "8 miles northwest of Ashland, Clark county"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae

	cf. Paranasua sp. Baskin 1982	Baskin 1982
	possibly the same as "Leptarctus" of Zakrzewski 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)	Baskin 1998

	Epicyon validus (Stirton and Vanderhoof 1933)	Munthe 1989
	= Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858	Alroy 2002
	confirmed by Baskin 1998a, Wang et al. 1999

	Osteoborus sp. Stirton and VanderHoof 1933	Wang et al. 1999
	= Borophagus pugnator Cook 1922	Alroy 2002
	replaces ID of Munthe 1989, Baskin 1998a
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae

	Barbourofelis sp. Schultz et al. 1970	Martin 1984
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	Machairodus catocopis Cope 1887	Antón et al. 2013
	(7 measurements)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Neohipparion trampasense (Edwards 1982)	Hulbert 1987

	Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)	Hulbert 1989
	= Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832	Alroy 2002
	pers. commun.

	Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Protohippus gidleyi Hulbert 1988	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras cf. major Hatcher 1894	Nelson and Madsen 1987
	"fossiger", but comparison is to BSC form
	= Teleoceras fossiger Cope 1878	Prothero 2005

	Aphelops malacorhinus Cope 1878	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae

	Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881	Hibbard 1953
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Citellus fricki n. sp. Hibbard 1942	Hibbard 1942
	= Spermophilus fricki Hibbard 1942	Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Megalonychidae

	Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855
	"Jim Swayze Quarry"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Kansas	County:	Clark
Coordinates:	37.2° North, 99.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	37.5° 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
*International age/stage:	Burdigalian	*Local age/stage:	Early/Lower Hemphillian
Key time interval:	Hemphillian
Age range of interval:	9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Ogallala
Stratigraphic resolution:	formation

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection excludes:	some genera
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:equids: Hulbert 1989 pers. commun.

Metadata

Database number:	18415
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2018-02-05 14:57:35
Access level:	the public	Released:	1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

1919.

S. E. Hirschfeld and S. D. Webb. 1968. Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(5) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
48545		M. Antón, M. J. Salesa, and G. Siliceo. 2013. Machairodont adaptations and affinities of the Holarctic Late Miocene homotherin Machairodus (Mammalia, Carnivora, Felidae): the case of Machairodus catocopis Cope, 1887. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(5):1202-1213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1028	5% 29740	J. A. Baskin. 1982. Tertiary Procyoninae (Mammalia: Carnivora) of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2(1):71-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1032		J. A. Baskin. 1998. Evolutionary trends in the late Miocene hyena-like dog Epicyon (Carnivora, Canidae). National Science Museum Monographs 14:191-214 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1853		C. W. Hibbard. 1942. A new fossil ground squirell Citellus (Pliocitellus) fricki from the Pliocene of Clark County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 45:253-257 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1871		C. W. Hibbard. 1953. Equus (Asinus) Calobatus Troxell and Associated Vertebrates from the Pleistocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 56(1):111-126 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3850	5% 23520	R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1987. Late Neogene Neohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida and Texas. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):809-830 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]
1952		R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2411		J. E. Martin. 1984. A Survey of Tertiary Species of Perognathus (Perognathinae) and a description of a new genus of Heteromyinae,. In R. M. Mengle (ed.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 9:90-121 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2424		L. D. Martin. 1984. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6266		K. Munthe. 1989. The skeleton of Borophaginae (Carnivora, Canidae): Morphology and function. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 133:1-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2647		M. E. Nelson and J. H. Madsen, Jr. 1987. A new Clarendonian (late Miocene) fauna from eastern Nevada. Contributions to Geology, University of Wyoming 25(1):23-28 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
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]