Cragin Quarry Locality 1: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus viridis
Rafinesque 1818
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Agkistrodon contortix
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Crocopoda | ||||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Heterodon sp.
Latreille 1801
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"probably near platyrhinos" and from "Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
? Diadophis sp.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Storeria sp.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Lampropeltis getulus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Coluber constrictor
Linnaeus 1758
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
Natrix sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
"Cragin Quarry" | ||||||||||
= Nerodia sp.
Baird and Girard 1853
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Alroy 2009 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon harlani
(Owen 1840)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Perognathus hispidus
Baird 1858
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= Chaetodipus hispidus
Baird 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Dipodomys cf. ordii
Woodhouse 1853
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Perognathinae indet.
Coues 1875
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additional "Perognathus sp." | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys ludovicianus
(Ord 1815)
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= Cynomys niobrarius
Hay 1921
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Goodwin 1995 | |||||||||
Citellus tridecemlineatus
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= Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
Mitchell 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus progressus n. sp.
Hibbard 1960
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Peromyscus cf. cochrani
Hibbard 1955
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Neotoma micropus
Baird 1855
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Reithrodontomys megalotis
(Baird 1858)
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Pedomys sp.
Baird 1858
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synonym of Microtus | ||||||||||
Onychomys cf. leucogaster
(Wied-Neuwied 1841)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Panthera atrox
(Leidy 1853)
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recombined as Panthera leo atrox | ||||||||||
see also Simpson 1941b | ||||||||||
Felis concolor
Linnaeus 1771
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recombined as Puma concolor | ||||||||||
see also Simpson 1941b | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Vulpes velox
(Say 1823)
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probably OK: Anderson 1984 | ||||||||||
Aenocyon dirus
(Leidy 1858)
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= Canis dirus
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Aenocyon dirus | ||||||||||
confirmed by Nowak 1979 | ||||||||||
Canis latrans
Say 1823
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Spilogale interrupta
(Rafinesque 1820)
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= Spilogale putorius
Linnaeus 1758
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops kansanus
Leidy 1854
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= Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Tanupolama sp.
Stock 1928
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= Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus cf. compressus
Leconte 1848
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Capromeryx furcifer
Matthew 1902
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(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus conversidens
Owen 1869
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Equus scotti
Gidley 1900
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synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Notiosorex crawfordi
(Coues 1877)
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Dasypterus golliheri n. sp.
Hibbard 1960
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recombined as Lasiurus golliheri | ||||||||||
a bat | ||||||||||
Lasiurus cinereus
(Palisot de Beauvois 1796)
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a bat | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
Coordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.2° North, 100.1° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories: | USGS |
Taxonomic list comments:originally reported by Hibbard 1939c list of Hibbard 1970c includes Butler Spring and other authors include the upper Butler Spring sites in the "Cragin Quarry" fauna; Hibbard and Taylor mention three other "Cragin Quarry" sites (Localities 2, 3, 4) but no records are given |
Metadata
Also known as: | Big Springs Loc. 1; KU Locality 6; USGS 21274 | ||
Database number: | 20295 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-07-15 19:02:39 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
1907. | C. W. Hibbard and D. W. Taylor. 1960. Two Late Pleistocene Faunas from Southwestern Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 16(1):1-223 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
29343 | J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
30836 | B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |