Also known as Elm Creek

Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (36.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "ca. 0.5-1.0 m above the contact with with [underlying Permian] red beds"

•"Fossil shell from [this] site... was dated (1989) 11,410 +/- 110 YBP"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; coarse-grained, pebbly sandstone and claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Dalquest and Baskin in 1989, 1990

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and J. A. Baskin. 1992. Mammals of the Elm Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Beaver County, Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 127:13-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74144: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.2007

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