White Rock Middle Loc.: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex aff. sandersi Hibbard 1956
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus cf. furlongi Gazin 1934
    = Hypolagus voorhiesi White 1988
White 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathus pearlettensis Hibbard 1941
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus boothi Hibbard 1972
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus sandersi Hibbard 1956
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858
Neotoma taylori Hibbard 1967
    = Neotoma leucopetrica Zakrzewski 1991
Zakrzewski 1991
Ondatra idahoensis Wilson 1933
Reithrodontomys pratincola Hibbard 1941
Synaptomys rinkeri Hibbard 1956
    = Plioctomys cf. rinkeri Hibbard 1956
Alroy 2002
Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
Ophiomys meadensis (Hibbard 1956)
original and current combination Pliophenacomys meadensis
Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
OK, Zakrzewski 1984
Pliophenacomys cf. primaevus (Hibbard 1937)
    = Hibbardomys marthae Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
Pliophenacomys osborni Martin 1972
    = Hibbardomys voorhiesi Zakrzewski 1984
Zakrzewski 1984
in part
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-K4-72
Database number:19943
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]