Shorts Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kansas
collected by C. C. Carpenter 1947

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Succinia concordalis
Succinia haydeni
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Planorbidae
Gyraulus parvus
Helisoma lentum
Helisoma anceps
Menetus exacuous
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Physidae
Physa hawni
Physa arboreus
Physa anatina
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Lymnaeidae
Lymnaea parva
Lymnaea humulus
"Lymnaea humulus rustica"
Lymnaea caperota
Lymnaea sp. Lamarck 1799
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Vertiginidae
Vertigo ovata
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Gastrocoptidae
Gastrocopta armifera
"Gastrocopta armifera abbreviata"
Gastrocopta tappaniana
Gastrocopta cristata
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Valloniidae
Vallonia gracilicosta
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pupillidae
Pupoides marginatus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Zonitidae
Hawaiia miniscula
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicodiscidae
Helicodiscus parallelus
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Sphaeriidae
Musculium partineium
Musculium transversum
Pisidium noveboracense
Pisidium abditum
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854
Tihen 1954
"Bufo woodhousei woodhousei"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Eschatius conidens Cope 1884
Riggs 1945
nomen dubium belonging to Camelops
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Tremarctotherium simum (Cope 1879)
recombined as Arctodus simus
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene ilanensis
Oelrich 1953
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Meade
Coordinates: 37.5° North, 100.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.5° North, 100.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "probably the equivalent of the Lower Kingsdown Formation" (Rinker 1949); "Sangamon... The strata in which the specimen occurred lie uncomformably upon the Upper Pliocene Rexroad Formation" (Oelrich 1953)
Lithology and environment
Lithology description: none given
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Collectors:C. C. Carpenter Collection dates:1947
Collection method comments: specimen collected in part "by a University of Michigan field party on July 28, 1950" and in part "the previous year... by Irving Vogt, a local rancher" (Rinker 1949)
Taxonomic list comments:Rinker (1949) gives no details about the name or location of his collection, but Oelrich (1953) clearly states that it is from UM-K2-47 and lists the same mammals
Metadata
Also known as:UM-K2-47; Lone Tree Arroyo; XI Ranch
Database number:37788
Authorizer:J. Head, J. Marcot, J. Alroy Enterer:J. Head, J. Marcot, J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2004-03-23 18:22:19 Last modified:2007-11-09 11:28:59
Access level:the public Released:2004-03-23 18:22:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24248. G. C. Rinker. 1949. Tremarctotherium from the Pleistocene of Meade County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 7(6):107-112 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

100755% 43640T. M. Oelrich. 1953. A new box turtle from the Pleistocene of Southwestern Kansas. Copeia 1953(1):33-38 [J. Head/J. Head/J. Alroy]
51498 E. S. Riggs. 1945. A Rare Cameloid from the Late Pleistocene Sands of Southwestern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 48(1):101-104 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
25727 J. A. Tihen. 1954. A Kansas Pleistocene herpetofauna. Copeia 1954(3-4):217-221 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]