Mt. Scott (UM-K4-53) (Pleistocene of the United States)

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)

• quarry within a paleochannel

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "in an old channel" cut into the underlying Crooked Creek and Ballard formations
• no details given

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• "5 tons of fosill-bearing matrix was removed 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 20424: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.06.1994

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Taxonomic list

• "contains numerous remains of molluscs" described by Miller 1961 (not seen)
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex scottensis, Blarina carolinensis
Sorex scottensis Jammot 1972 long-tailed shrew
Blarina carolinensis Bachman 1837 southern short-tailed shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp.
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus berendsensis, Peromyscus progressus, Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster, Ondatra zibethicus, Synaptomys australis
Peromyscus berendsensis Starrett 1956 deer mouse
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928 mouse
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp.
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher