West of Bonner Springs (Pleistocene of the United States)

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
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838 giant beaver