Pleistocene Mammals from Kansas / A New Species of Cyprinidotid Fish from the Middle Pliocene of Kansas

Abstract

The following mammals are reported as new to the Borchers fauna from lower Pleistocene deposits of Meade County, Kansas: Canis sp., Felis? sp., Perognathus gidleyi Hibbard, Parahodomys sp., Ondatra sp., and Equus sp. Reported as new additions to the Jones fauna, from the upper Pleistocene of Meade County, are Perognathus sp., Onychomys leucogaster and Platygonus. Cynomys vetus, n. sp., is described from a Pleistocene deposit in Jewell County, Kansas. A new species of cyprinidontid fish, Fundulus detillae, is described from the middle Pliocene, Ogallala formation, of Logan County, Kansas.