Quinlan (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Curtis

Where: Woodward County, Oklahoma (36.4° N, 99.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• "late Irvingtonian" based on faunal association

Environment/lithology: fluvial; unlithified, brown, yellow, silty sandstone

• inferred to be fluvial
• "bits of matrix adhering to the specimens consist of buff, yellow, and reddish brown silty sand"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J. W. Gidley in 1927; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: W. A. Akersten and H. G. McDonald. 1991. Nothrotheriops from the Pleistocene of Oklahoma and paleogeography of the genus. Southwestern Naturalist 36(2):178-185 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20484: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• said to be "probably Irvingtonian"
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Pseudemys sp.
Pseudemys sp. Gray 1856 cooter
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp.
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Equus sp.
cf. Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
cf. Camelops sp.
cf. Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Carnivora - Felidae
cf. Homotherium sp.
cf. Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat
compares best with H. serum
  - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon cf. harlani1
Paramylodon cf. harlani1 Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth
 Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum2
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum2 Hay 1916 edentate
1Alroy 2002; 2McDonald 1995