Where: Wyandotte County, Kansas (39.1° N, 94.9° W: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 94.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "late Wisconsinan"
Environment/lithology: fluvial; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Stanley Rasmussen in 1984
Collection methods: surface (float),
• specimen apparently not reposited in a museum collection
Primary reference: J. B. Slowinski. 1989. A Castoroides ulna from the Kansas River. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 92(1/2):113-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 83076: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838 giant beaver |