Also known as Elm Creek
Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (36.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.8° N, 100.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "shell from [this site] was dated... (1990) 11,630 +/- 90 YBP"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; claystone and sandstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Dalquest and Baskin in 1990
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and J. A. Baskin. 1992. Mammals of the Elm Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Beaver County, Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 127:13-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74145: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew | |
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole | |
"Spermophilus franklinii" = Poliocitellus franklinii Sabine 1822 Franklin's gruond squirrel
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk
Cynomys ludovicianus Ord 1815 black-tailed prairie dog | |
Geomys bursarius Shaw 1800 plains pocket gopher
Thomomys talpoides Richardson 1828 northern pocket gopher |