Duck Creek Locality 4 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Ellis County, Kansas (38.9° N, 99.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.9° N, 99.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• said to be Illinoian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. L. McMullen. 1978. Mammals of the Duck Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 59(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20315: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew