Bender: Blancan, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon intermedius Hibbard 1937
    = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922
Alroy 2002
referred to as "S. medius" by Kurten and Anderson 1980
Ogmodontomys poaphagus Hibbard 1941
Zakrzewski 1967
Locality 1c and UM-K2-57
Pliolemmus antiquus Hibbard 1937
Kurten and Anderson 1980
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tedford et al. 2009
recombined as Eucyon ferox
Reptilia - Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Egretta sp. Forster 1817
Moseley and Feduccia 1975
"moderate to large size"
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
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
Formation:Rexroad
Local section:Meade Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Taxonomic list comments:above the "massive caliche bed" but below the Ballard Fm.
no associated vertebrates were known to Taylor 1960
Metadata
Database number:19925
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
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:

1884. C. W. Hibbard. 1960. An interpretation of Pliocene and Pleistocene climates in North America. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Annual Report 62:5-30 [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]
6221 B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America 1-442 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
7594 C. Moseley and A. Feduccia. 1975. Upper Pliocene herons and ibises from North America. University of Michigan Papers on Paleontology 12:71-74 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
37855% 37480R. J. Zakrzewski. 1967. The primitive role, Ogmodontomys, from the late Cenozoic of Kansas and Nebraska. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 52(52):133-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]