Adams: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo cf. cognatus
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Ambystoma tigrinum
(Green 1825)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus scotti
Gidley 1900
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| synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis latrans
Say 1823
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus sp.
Oken 1816
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| synonym of Spermophilus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides cf. ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Mammalia
- Nothrotheriidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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= Nothrotheriops texanus
Hay 1916
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McDonald 1995 | |||||||||
| original and current combination Nothrotherium texanum | ||||||||||
| presumably includes "Megalonyx sp." as McDonald refers to Hibbard and Taylor 1960, who describe only one xenarthran specimen from this locality | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydoidea twentei
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
| Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 100.5° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 100.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | yellow calcareous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
| Lithology description: basal, yellow limonitic sands and gravels and associated silt lenses" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Geology comments: "stream deposits" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:"chiefly from Localities 2, 3, 4, and 5" - i.e., much of the "Butler Spring" fauna of Hibbard and Taylor 1960; underlies Butler Spring sensu stricto, but relationship to Mt. Scott is not clear most of the large mammals are not assigned to a specific locality by Hibbard and Taylor | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20137 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2004-03-09 16:04:20 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3081. | 5% 40280 | G. E. Schultz. 1969. Geology and paleontology of a late Pleistocene basin in southwest kansas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 105:1-85 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2499 | H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |