Young Brothers Ranch: Hemphillian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Machairodus catocopis Cope 1887
Antón et al. 2013
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)
"Rhino Quarry, Young Brothers Ranch"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
Prothero 2005
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
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
Geological group:Ogallala
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:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:AMNH
Metadata
Database number:18497
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2013-10-16 20:18:08
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

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]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]