Dixon: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
    = Marmotini indet.
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
? Procastoroides sp. Barbour and Schultz 1937
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Nebraskomys mcgrewi Hibbard 1957
Skinner and Hibbard 1972
Pliophenacomys dixonensis n. sp. Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
Synaptomys rinkeri n. sp. Hibbard 1956
    = Plioctomys rinkeri Hibbard 1956
Alroy 2002
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Pliophenacomys meadensis Hibbard 1956
    = Hibbardomys fayae n. sp. Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
in part, and possibly including all Dixon specimens
Pliolemmus antiquus Hibbard 1937
Pliopotamys meadensis Hibbard 1937
    = Ondatra meadensis Hibbard 1937
Alroy 2002
questioned by Koenigswald and Martin 1984
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Soricidae indet. Fischer 1814
Alroy 2002
Blarina sp. Gray 1838
    = Blarina cf. brevicauda Say 1823
Jones et al. 1984
"tentatively" assigned to this species
Sorex dixonensis n. sp. Hibbard 1956
    = Planisorex dixonensis Hibbard 1956
Alroy 2002
Sorex leahyi n. sp. Hibbard 1956
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
Reptilia - Colubridae
Elaphe sp. Wagler 1833
Brattstrom 1967
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Brattstrom 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Kingman
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 98.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.6° North, 97.4° 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:4.90000 - 1.80000 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:two separate sites on one farm according to later authors; not the same as Norwich
Metadata
Database number:19930
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1876.5% 37600C. 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]
30836 B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2046 C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
6254 M. F. Skinner and C. W. Hibbard. 1972. Early Pleistocene pre-glacial and glacial rocks and faunas of north-central Nebraska. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 148(1):1-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3792 R. J. Zakrzewski. 1984. New Arvicolines (Mammalia: Rodentia) from the Blancan of Kansas and Nebraska. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]