Mt. Scott (UM-K2-59) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as The Lookout

Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 100.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• material apparently is from a single, 31 inch thick bed

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, sandy siltstone

• "greenish-gray, sandy silt"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• "27 tons of matrix were removed from the quarry for washing"

Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1963. A late Illinoian fauna from Kansas and its climatic significance. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 48:187-221 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 20423: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.06.1994

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• there are three "Cragin Quarry" localities in the same quarter of the same section but at a higher stratigraphic level: see Hibbard and Taylor 1960
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene carolina2 Linnaeus 1758 common box turtle
 Squamata - Anguidae
Ophisaurus attenuatus2 Cope 1880 Slender glass lizard
 Squamata - Colubridae
Regina grahami2 crayfish snake
Nerodia sipedon2 Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake
Thamnophis proximus2 garter snake
Diadophis punctatus2 Linnaeus ringneck snake
Storeria cf. dekayi2 brown snake
Lampropeltis getulus2 Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Coluber cf. constrictor2 Linnaeus 1758 black racer
Pituophis melanoleucus2 Daudin 1803 pine snake
 Squamata - Crotalidae
"Crotalinae indet." = Crotalidae2
"Crotalinae indet." = Crotalidae2 Oppel 1811 pit viper
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Lasiurus cinereus Palisot de Beauvois 1796 hairy-tailed bat
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
"Mustela vison" = Neogale vison
"Mustela vison" = Neogale vison Schreber 1777 mink
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison cf. latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew
Blarina carolinensis1 Bachman 1837 southern short-tailed shrew
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 arctic shrew
Sorex scottensis n. sp.1 Jammot 1972 long-tailed shrew
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
Spermophilus sp.1 Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
Spermophilus cf. tridecemlineatus1 Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Peromyscus berendsensis Starrett 1956 deer mouse
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928 mouse
Oryzomys palustris1 Harlan 1837 marsh rice rat
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Amphibia
 Salientia - Ranidae
Rana sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 frog
"pipiens complex"