Prairie Dog Town Site: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Oklahoma
collected by Dalquest and Baskin 1989, 1990
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus columbi
(Falconer 1857)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "one or more mammoths" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "a few scraps of horse teeth" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex palustris
Richardson 1828
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| incisor "diagnostic of this genus" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Tamias striatus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
(Mitchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Oklahoma | County: | Beaver |
| Coordinates: | 36.8° North, 100.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 36.8° North, 100.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 11410 ± 110 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "ca. 0.5-1.0 m above the contact with with [underlying Permian] red beds" "Fossil shell from [this] site... was dated (1989) 11,410 +/- 110 YBP" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",coarse,pebbly sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | planar lamination claystone |
| Lithology description: "snail-rich unit of cross-bedded, pebbly coarse sand and laminated silty clay" | |
| Environment: | fluvial-lacustrine indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Dalquest and Baskin | Collection dates: | 1989, 1990 |
| Taxonomic list comments:the following "Elm Creek" taxa are not assigned specifically to either the Prairie Dog Town or Gregg Ranch sites: Sorex sp., Neotoma cf. micropus | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Elm Creek | ||
| Database number: | 74144 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-07-24 21:50:11 | Last modified: | 2010-01-14 17:24:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-07-24 21:50:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1316. | W. W. Dalquest and J. A. Baskin. 1992. Mammals of the Elm Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Beaver County, Oklahoma. American Midland Naturalist 127:13-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |