Nye Sink (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Beaver County, Oklahoma (37.0° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 100.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Sangamon Interglacial"
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; poorly lithified, diatomaceous siltstone
• "a fresh water basin"
• "silt, clay, silty sand, and diatomaceous earth" (Lunk 1952)
Size class: mesofossils
Reposited in the UMMP
Primary reference: W. A. Lunk. 1952. A hooded merganser from the late Pleistocene of Oklahoma. Condor 54:316-317 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 91527: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.09.2009
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "a small duck" and "fish and amphibian remains" are also present (Lunk 1952)
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Aves | |
Lophodytes cucullatus Linnaeus 1758 hooded merganser | |
Reptilia | |
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843 garter snake | |
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
Synaptomys bunkeri Hibbard 1939 mouse |