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University of Michigan University Library CLAUDE W. HIBBARD MEMORIAL VOLUMES (1-5) Index and Bibliography of Late Cenozoic Freshwater Mollusca of Western North Aierica Dwight W. Taylor The Fossil Catfishes of North America John G. Lundberg Studies on Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy (Papers Presented at Hibbard Memorial Symposiurn, May, 1974, in Ann Arbor) Geology and Paleontology of the Early Pleistocene Belleidle Formation of North-Central Kansas Ralph E. Eshelman Fishes of the Pliocene Glenns Ferry Formation, Soutl~westIdaho Gerald R. Smith and Fishes of the Miocene-Pliocene Deer Butte Formation, Southeast Oregon Peter G. Kimmel Museum of Paleontology The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 481 04 STUDIES ON CENOZOIC PALEONTOLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY Hibbie, 1969 Studies on Cenozoic Paleontology and Stratigraphy in honor of Claude W. Hibbard Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of Paleontology and Professor of Geology and Mineralogy University of Michigan Edited by G.R. Smith and N.E. Friedland Museum of Paleontology The University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Claude W. Hibbard Memorial Volume 3 Papers on Paleontology No. 12 The Museum of Paleontology University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 481 04 Gerald R. Smith, Director APPRECIATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS EXPRESSED TO THE 1962 CLASS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FOR ESTABLISHING AN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PUBLISHING FUND. THIS FUND AND A CONTRIBUTION BY DWIGHT W. TAYLOR HAVE AIDED IN THE PUBLICATION OF THIS WORK. Associate Editors J.A. Dorr, Jr. A.J. van der Meulen printed in Ann Arbor, Michigan by Litho Crafters, Inc. Claude Hibbard appreciated the reasons behind the about 160 scientific publications and more or less guided malapropism, "fest me no more schrifts." But since through publication more than 50 projects by students in there are too few other ways to honor the memory of a his vertebrate paleontology classes, in addition to super- colleague, we present here a collection of papers that vision of graduate students. He was extraordinarily were prepared for the symposium held in his honor generous of his materials and time to these student May 6 and 7, 1974, atThe University of Michigan. The projects, and insisted that the students enjoy sole author- symposium was attended by more than 80 persons; 34 ship for their work and ideas. He was an intellectually papers were given. The following persons contributed demanding person, deeply committed to the study of life papers to the symposium but are unfortunately not of the past. His influential philosophy combined the represented in the memorial volumes: Jiri Zidek, Mark pragmatism of a Kansas farmer with the scholarly curiosity Wilson, John W. Cosgriff, Jr., T.N. Todd, Joe A. Tihen, of the great naturalists of the last century. It was a source Charles J. Chantell, Robert E. Preston, Charles Meszoely, of great pleasure and satisfaction to him to guide students Ken Campbell, Paul Ramaekers, Russell B. King, C.S. through their research. Churcher, John E. Guilday, John A. Howe, William D. Among his major scientific contributions, three will Turnbull, John A. Wilson, Margaret S. Stevens, John B. have the most lasting influence: hs development of the Stevens, John Boellstorff, Michael W. Hager, Gerald E. faunal sequence for the Plio-Pleistocene rocks in the area Schultz, Holmes A. Semken, and Ronald 0.Kapp. of southwest Kansas and northwest Oklahoma, his recog- Claude W. Hibbard was born in Toronto, Kansas, on nition of evidence for climatic equability in the distribu- March 21, 1905. His early professional training was at tional data for taxa represented in certain Pleistocene the University of Kansas, where he received his Bachelor faunas, and his development of the large-scale wet-screen- of Arts degree in 1933 and his Master of Arts degree in ing technique for fossil concentration. 1934. During 1934-35 he was a wildlife biologist with The painstaking construction of the stratigraphic and the U.S. National Park Service in Kentucky. He received faunal framework for the southwestern plains Plio- hs Doctor of Philosophy degree in zoology from The Pleistocene sequence was the primary object of the nearly University of Michigan in 1941. 40 field seasons and the incredibly long work-days and During his graduate studies and until 1946 he taught work weeks. This monument is still appreciated by too zoology, headed field work, and served as curator of few (a depreciative reference to preoccupation with faunal vertebrates at the Museum of Natural History, University lists and stratigraphy, written by a leading paleontologist, of Kansas. He was a member of The University of Michi- was one of the most frustrating disappointments in gan faculty from 1946 until his sudden death at the Muse- Hibbard's career). At the time of his death it looked as if um of Paleontology on October 9,1973. the major anomalies were being resolved by the chronolo- His broad interests are illustrated by his participation gical information from the ash investigations, and the in scientific societies: American Society of Mammologists framework was beginning to resemble the final picture. (Board of Directors), American Ornithological Union, Many of the papers in ths volume contribute to that American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists picture, but without Hibbard the final summary will (Board of Governors), the Paleontological Society, Society probably take many more years to develop. The history of Vertebrate Paleontology (Secretary-Treasurer, Vice- and current status are reviewed here by Rick Zakrzewski. President, President), Geological Society of America In a paper still in preparation, Holmes Semken will (Fellow), Kansas Academy of Science (Vice-President, discuss the climatic implications of the faunas with President), Sigma Xi, Phi Sigma, American Geological discordant zoogeographic elements, a phenomenon first Institute (Board of Directors), Michigan Geological Soci- noted in print in 1952 and developed more thoroughly ety (President), and Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, in Hibbard's analysis of the Jinglebob fauna in 1955. and Letters (President). He served on the editorial board The development of the washing method is presented of "Quaternary Research." In 1967 the University of here in a historical perspective written in a letter to Kansas honored him with the Erasmus Haworth Distin- Prof. W.G. Kiihne. Naturally, the raconteur touches on a guished Alumni Honors in Geology. He was the author of number of other points of special interest to us at this time. With Prof. Kiihne's permission, the letter is repro- along the way; we hope that they will prove useful in duced here in its entirety (except certain references to eras continuing the work. long-since passed, deleted to preserve the good will of our Many people helped in the preparation of the symposi- colleagues in New York). um and this volume: Krystina Butterfield, J.A. Dorr, Jr., Excellent biographies of Claude W. Hibbard have been James A. Doyle, William R. Farrand, Philip D. Gingerich, written by Holmes Semken and Rick Zakrzewski (J. Robert Habetler, Ocie M. Hess, Faye Ganfield Hibbard, Mamm. 56:275-279), Jack Wilson (GSA Memorial, 1974, Robert V. Kesling, Peter G. Kimmel, Russell B. King, with bibliography), and Jack Dorr (SVP Bull. 100:59-60), Karoly Kutasi, Gerald P. Larson, Gladys Newton, Janet but all of the stories have not been told; perhaps a full Rudolph, Holmes A. Semken, and Dwight W. Taylor. hlstory can be assembled while the essential memories are The frontispiece was provided by Clayton and Caroline still extant. Griggs of McPherson, Kansas. The picture was taken dur- A set of volumes Ue these, but achieving a more ing the early summer of 1969 at the White sand and gravel definitive summary, was conceived in 1970 by Dwight pit, just north of Kanopolis, Kansas. Taylor. However, the essential source of information and Finally, I thank all of the participants in the Symposi- the intended recipient of the honor departed too early. um for their interest and help in honoring Claude W. The present volume is therefore just a collection of papers Hibbard. GRS CONTENTS The Classification of Ogallala Sediments in Western Nebraska JOHNBREYER ..................................................................1 A Sequence of Radiocarbon-Dated Wisconsinan Nonrnarine Molluscan Faunas from Southwestern Kansas-Northwestern Oklahoma BARRYB.MILLER ...............................................................9 The Molluscan Fauna of the Illinoian Butler Spring Sloth Locality from Meade County, Kansas CYNTHIAH.DEVORE ...........................................................19 Climatic and Biogeographic Significance of a Fish Fauna from the Late Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of the Lake Chapala Basin (Jalisco, Mexico) MICHAEL L. SMITH, TED M. CAVENDER, ROBERT R. MILLER .............................29 Fishes of the Kanopolis Local Fauna Pleistocene) of Ellsworth County, Kansas NANCYA.NEFF ............................................................... 39 Herpetofauna of the WaKeeney Local Fauna (Lower Pliocene: Clarendonian) of Trego County, Kansas J.ALANHOLMAN ..............................................................49 Professor Hibbard's Fossil Birds ALAN FEDUCCIA ...............................................................67 Upper Pliocene Herons and Ibises from North America CAROLYN MOSELEY AND ALAN FEDUCCIA. ..........................................7 1 The Problem of the Hystricognathous Rodents ALBERTE.WOOD ..............................................................75 Observations
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