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
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Succinia concordalis
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Succinia haydeni
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Planorbidae
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Gyraulus parvus
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Helisoma lentum
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Helisoma anceps
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Menetus exacuous
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Physidae
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Physa hawni
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Physa arboreus
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Physa anatina
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Lymnaeidae
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Lymnaea parva
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Lymnaea humulus
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"Lymnaea humulus rustica" | ||||||||||
Lymnaea caperota
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Lymnaea sp.
Lamarck 1799
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Vertiginidae
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Vertigo ovata
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Gastrocoptidae
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Gastrocopta armifera
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"Gastrocopta armifera abbreviata" | ||||||||||
Gastrocopta tappaniana
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Gastrocopta cristata
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Valloniidae
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Vallonia gracilicosta
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pupillidae
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Pupoides marginatus
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Zonitidae
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Hawaiia miniscula
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Helicodiscidae
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Helicodiscus parallelus
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Sphaeriidae
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Musculium partineium
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Musculium transversum
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Pisidium noveboracense
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Pisidium abditum
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo woodhousei
Girard 1854
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Tihen 1954 | |||||||||
"Bufo woodhousei woodhousei" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Eschatius conidens
Cope 1884
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Riggs 1945 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Camelops | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Tremarctotherium simum
(Cope 1879)
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recombined as Arctodus simus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Mylodontidae
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Paramylodon sp.
Brown 1903
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Terrapene ilanensis
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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:
10075 | 5% 43640 | T. 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] |