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
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
Mammalia | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Equus cf. calobatus Troxell 1915 horse
"Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse | |
Platygonus cf. compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
"Tanupolama macrocephala" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel | |
"Felis atrox" = Panthera leo atrox
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"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
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Reptilia | |
"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)
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Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise |