Kaw River at North Topeka: Pleistocene, Kansas
collected 1939
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mastodon americanus
(Kerr 1792)
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| recombined as Mammut americanum | ||||||||||
| (2 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervalces scotti
(Lydekker 1898)
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Shawnee |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 95.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° North, 95.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Pleistocene" "pumped out a depth of 25 feet below the present stream bed" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | unlithified sandstone |
| Lithology description: "sand" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1939 |
| Collection method comments: specimens reposited in University of Kansas Museum of Vertebrate Paleontology
collected by the Consumers Sand Company while pumping sand and donated by H. N. Richardson | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 83056 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-06 14:12:50 | Last modified: | 2008-08-06 17:12:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-06 14:12:49 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1846. | C. W. Hibbard. 1940. The occurrence of Cervalces scotti Lydekker in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 43:411-415 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |