Angell Member: Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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| from Meade and Clark Cos. | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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| locality not stated | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus phlegon
(Hay 1899)
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= Nannippus peninsulatus
Cope 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| "most" material from Clark Co. | ||||||||||
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Equus (? Asinus) sp.
(Gray 1822)
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| synonym of Equus | ||||||||||
| from the Sanders gravel pit | ||||||||||
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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| recombined as Plesippus simplicidens | ||||||||||
| from the Sanders gravel pit | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
| Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.3° North, 99.7° 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
| Taxonomic list comments:most taxa or all taxa are present in the Sanders pit below the Sanders fauna, but much of the material came from two localities in Clark Co. originally placed in the "Meade gravels member" of the "Meade formation"; revised terminology follows Hibbard 1958a |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19924 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1876. | 5% 37600 | C. W. Hibbard. 1956. Vertebrate fossils from the Meade Formation of southwestern Kansas. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 41(41):145-203 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |