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)
• from one horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; red, sandy siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "Six tons of matrix were collected and washed"
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 20167: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Scaphiopus sp. Holbrook 1836 spadefoot toad | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog | |
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854 Woodhouse's toad | |
Ambystoma cf. tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander | |
Mammalia | |
Peromyscus progressus, Reithrodontomys megalotis, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Onychomys cf. leucogaster
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Onychomys cf. leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse | |
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Reptilia | |
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Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise |