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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew | |
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel | |
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Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole |