Hall Ash: Irvingtonian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Ferissia cf. fragilis
Planorbula campestris
Allogona profunda
Stenotrema leai
Euconulus fulvus
Cionella lubrica
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green 1825)
Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw 1802)
misspelling Amblystoma maculatum
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana pipiens Schreber 1782
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo hemiophrys
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus cf. richardsonii (Sabine 1822)
recombined as Urocitellus richardsonii
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
specific identity also unclear to Goodwin 1995b
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus sandersi Hibbard 1956
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus paroperarius Hibbard 1944
(5 measurements)
Ondatra annectens (Brown 1908)
Phenacomys cf. intermedius Merriam 1889
(1 measurement)
Synaptomys meltoni Paulson 1961
    = Mictomys cf. meltoni Paulson 1961
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex aff. cinereus Kerr 1792
(1 measurement)
Microsorex pratensis Hibbard 1944
(1 measurement)
    = Sorex cf. pratensis Hibbard 1944
Alroy 2002
Gastropoda - Discidae
Discus cronkhitei
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Stagnicola caperata
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Gyraulus parvus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa gyrina
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicodiscidae
Helicodiscus paralellus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Zonitidae
Zonitoides nitidus
Zonitoides arboreus
Nesovitrea electrina
Hawaiia minuscula
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Valloniidae
Vallonia gracilicosta
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Gastrocoptidae
Gastrocopta cf. armifera
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Succineidae
Succinea ovalis
cf. Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Carychiidae
Carychium exiguum
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Acteonidae
Pupilla sinistra
spelled with current rank as Pupa (Pupilla)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Sphaerium sp. Scopoli 1777
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Jewell
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 98.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 97.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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
Formation:Sappa
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:underlies an ash dated at 0.706 +/- 0.017 Ma FT on glass this may be the Hartford Ash
Goodwin 1995a reports Cynomys sp. from three unnamed localities in Jewell Co.
Metadata
Database number:20352
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1462. R. Eshelman and M. Hager. 1984. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]