Butler Spring (KU Locality 7) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Cragin Quarry, in part

Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.0° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Kingsdown Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• "lower third of an 18-foot exposure"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; brown, gray siltstone and sandstone

• "of sinkhole origin"
• "light-brown to light-gray silt to fine sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1969. Geology and paleontology of a late Pleistocene basin in southwest kansas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 105:1-85 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20166: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Equus cf. calobatus" is called into question by Hulbert 1995b
Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
two forms
Equus cf. calobatus Troxell 1915 horse
"Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus cf. compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp.1, "Tanupolama macrocephala" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala
Camelops sp.1 Leidy 1854 camel
"Tanupolama macrocephala" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Felis atrox" = Panthera leo atrox
"Felis atrox" = Panthera leo atrox Leidy 1853 lion
"Felis (Panthera) atrox"
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
confirmed by Nowak 1979
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
"Emys twentei n. sp." = Emydoidea blandingii2
"Emys twentei n. sp." = Emydoidea blandingii2 Holbrook 1838 Blanding's turtle
KU 6478 (holotype), a partial carapace (Taylor 1943, pl. 20)
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise