White Rock Hibbard Loc.: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus cf. furlongi Gazin 1934
    = Hypolagus voorhiesi White 1988
White 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus boothi Hibbard 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus sandersi Hibbard 1956
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus cragini Hibbard 1944
Ondatra idahoensis Wilson 1933
Neotoma taylori Hibbard 1967
    = Neotoma leucopetrica Zakrzewski 1991
Zakrzewski 1991
Onychomys fossilis Hibbard 1941
    = Onychomys ? pedroensis Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
Reithrodontomys pratincola Hibbard 1941
Ophiomys meadensis (Hibbard 1956)
original and current combination Pliophenacomys meadensis
Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
OK, Zakrzewski 1984
Ogmodontomys sp. Hibbard 1941
    = Hibbardomys marthae Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
    = Hibbardomys voorhiesi Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
in part
Synaptomys rinkeri Hibbard 1956
    = Plioctomys cf. rinkeri Hibbard 1956
Alroy 2002
Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Prodipodomys sp. Hibbard 1939
Perognathus pearlettensis Hibbard 1941
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex aff. sandersi Hibbard 1956
Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
aff. Smilodon sp. Lund 1841
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Republic
Coordinates: 39.9° North, 97.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.0° North, 97.0° 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
Metadata
Also known as:UM-K3-69
Database number:19942
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:

1460. R. E. Eshelman. 1975. Geology and Paleontology of the Early Pleistocene (Late Blancan) White Rock Fauna from North-Central Kansas. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 13:1-60 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3632 J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
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]
3796 R. J. Zakrzewski. 1991. New Species of Blancan Woodrat (Cricetidae) from North-Central Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 72(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]