Also known as Edson Beds; North Quarry
Where: Sherman County, Kansas (39.3° N, 101.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 100.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Collected by H. T. Martin in 1924
• collection information pertains to Grus nannodes
Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1934. Two new genera of Felidae from the middle Pliocene of Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 37:239-255 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18140: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Bethany Allen and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•"Sciurus sp." is omitted by Harrison 1983
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"Scaphiopus pliobatrachus" = Spea pliobatrachus4
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"Colymbus nigricollis" = Podiceps nigricollis4
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Grus nannodes n. sp.9
Grus nannodes n. sp.9 Wetmore and Martin 1930 crane UK specimen from "the Pliocene deposits of Sherman County"
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Talpidae indet.4 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole said by Hutchison 1968 to be Scalopus, but this could also be Hesperoscalops
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Adelphailurus kansensis n. sp. Hibbard 1934 cat | |
"Hyaenognathus cyonoides n. sp." = Borophagus secundus6, "Osteoborus cyonoides" = Borophagus secundus4, Eucyon davisi3
"Hyaenognathus cyonoides n. sp." = Borophagus secundus6 VanderHoof 1931 bone-crushing dog see Stirton and VanderHoof 1933, Wang et al. 1999
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Martinogale alveodens Hall 1930 skunk | |
"Brachypsalis marshalli n. sp." = Plesiogulo marshalli6, "Plesiogulo marshalli" = Plesiogulo marshalli4, Pliotaxidea nevadensis2
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Megatylopus gigas Matthew and Cook 1909 camel | |
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