Kentuck: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Blarina sp.
Gray 1838
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Felinae indet.
Trouessart 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Gigantocamelus sp.
Barbour and Schultz 1939
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Pedomys llanensis
(Hibbard 1944)
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= Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus
Kormos 1932
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Martin 1975 | |||||||||
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Ondatra annectens
(Brown 1908)
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| includes "O. nebrascensis": Martin 1996 (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Onychomys sp.
Baird 1858
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Synaptomys kansasensis n. sp.
Hibbard 1952
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= Mictomys kansasensis
Hibbard 1952
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Sigmodon sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Martin 1975 | |||||||||
| "extinct Sigmodon similar to S. curtisi"; "S. hispidus" of Semken | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Perognathus hispidus
Baird 1858
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= Chaetodipus hispidus
Baird 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus richardsonii
(Sabine 1822)
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= Spermophilus richardsonii
Sabine 1822
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| recombined as Urocitellus richardsonii | ||||||||||
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Cynomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Goodwin 1995 | |||||||||
| probably subgenus Leucocrossuromys, e.g., C. gunnisoni or C. niobrarius; "C. vetus" of McMullen 1978: "C. cf. gunnisoni" | ||||||||||
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Citellus tridecemlineatus
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= Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
Mitchell 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Natrix sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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= Nerodia sp.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Alroy 2009 | |||||||||
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Heterodon platyrhinos
(Latreille 1801)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Elaphe obsoleta
(Say 1823)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Lampropeltis doliata
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | McPherson |
| Coordinates: | 38.3° North, 97.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.3° North, 97.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:from a channel deposit cutting into the McPherson Fm. originally described by Hibbard 1952 thought by both Hibbard and Semken to be a mixture of two distinct Pleistocene faunas, but this was rejected by Zakrzewski 1975; Kurten and Anderson 1980 appear to be unaware of the latter's argument "includes a number of misidentifed taxa": Martin 1975 |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20391 | ||
| 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:
| 3099. | H. A. Semken, Jr. 1966. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the McPherson Equus Beds (Sandahl Local Fauna), McPherson County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 20(6):121-178 [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] | |
| 29343 | J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 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] | |
| 1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 2438 | R. A. Martin. 1975. Allophaiomys Kormos from the Pleistocene of North America. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 12:97-100 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |