Bar M (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Locality 1

Where: Harper County, Oklahoma (36.7° N, 99.9° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 99.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard and D. W. Taylor. 1960. Two Late Pleistocene Faunas from Southwestern Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 16(1):1-223 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 20151: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002

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Taxonomic list

• there is a Locality 2, but it yielded no mammals
said to be glacial and "either Illinoian or Wisconsin" on the basis of the molluscan fauna
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Nerodia sp. Baird and Girard 1853 water snake
"perhaps near N. cyclopion"
Mammalia
 Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole