Butler Spring (UM K3-62) (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)

• from one horizon

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; red sandstone and siltstone

• "of sinkhole origin"
• "reddish sand and silt"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

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 20170: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn