Sanders (UM-K2-53): Blancan, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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| "mastodont": Taylor 1960 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex sandersi n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustela sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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Skinner and Hibbard 1972 | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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Equus simplicidens
Cope 1892
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= Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| based only on a tibia fragment | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
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Zapus sandersi n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Pliophenacomys meadensis n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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= Ophiomys meadensis
Hibbard 1956
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Pliophenacomys meadensis | ||||||||||
| see Hibbard and Zakrzewski 1967 | ||||||||||
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Pliolemmus antiquus
Hibbard 1937
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Bensonomys meadensis n. sp.
Hibbard 1956
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| recombined as Calomys (Bensonomys) meadensis | ||||||||||
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Sigmodon cf. intermedius
Hibbard 1937
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= Sigmodon medius
Gidley 1922
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Skinner and Hibbard 1972 | |||||||||
| synonym of Sigmodon minor | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys tobinensis
(Hibbard 1944)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Perognathus cf. pearlettensis
Hibbard 1941
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Prodipodomys sp.
Hibbard 1939
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis cf. sauritus
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
| "Thamnophis near sauritus" from "Sanders" (possibly UM-K1-53 instead) | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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 or all of this material is from UM-K2-53 because the duplicate list of Taylor 1960 excludes material from UM-K1-53 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 19938 | ||
| 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 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] |