Saw Rock Canyon (Upper): Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Hesperoscalops rexroadi
Hibbard 1941
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Hibbard 1953 | |||||||||
| recombined as Scalopus rexroadi | ||||||||||
| "from silty clay just below the sandy silt containing Testudo riggsi Hibbard (1944), approximately 60 yards east" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Pliomastodon adamsi n. sp.
Hibbard 1944
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= Mammut americanum
Kerr 1792
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| from a "gray sandy silt" and apparently the same unit as T. riggsi | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Seward |
| Coordinates: | 37.1° North, 100.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:about 20 feet above the main level, which is in the upper Rexroad Fm. at the level of Keefe Canyon; see Hibbard and Riggs 1949 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | XI Ranch | ||
| Database number: | 19923 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-05-08 20:01:08 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1857. | C. W. Hibbard. 1944. University of Kansas Science Bulletin 30(10) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1869 | C. W. Hibbard. 1953. The Saw Rock Canyon fauna [Kansas] and its stratigraphic significance. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 38:387-411 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |