Duck Creek Locality 2: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex kansasensis
McMullen 1975
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Sorex arcticus
Kerr 1792
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Sorex palustris
Richardson 1828
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
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Thomomys talpoides
(Richardson 1828)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Synaptomys borealis
(Richardson 1828)
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= Mictomys borealis
Richardson 1828
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
recombined as Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis | |||||||
Clethrionomys gapperi
(Vigors 1830)
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Ellis |
Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 99.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 99.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Illinoian |
Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Illinoian |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number: | 20313 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
2545. | T. L. McMullen. 1978. Mammals of the Duck Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 59(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |