Associated Material and Supply Company Sandpit: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervus elaphus
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison bison
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Bison antiquus
Leidy 1852
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sapiens
Linnaeus 1758
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| "a small fragment of a human skull cap" | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Sedgwick |
| Coordinates: | 37.8° North, 97.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.8° North, 97.4° 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: from "about thirty feet below the surface" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | conglomeratic sandstone |
| Lithology description: pit is in a sand with a "coarse fraction" of "'mud balls' [and] water rolled cobbles" but fossils are apparently from a "clay and silt level" | |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | late glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,selective quarrying |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 83069 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-06 17:40:50 | Last modified: | 2008-08-06 20:50:23 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-06 17:40:50 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27902. | R. A. Rogers and L. D. Martin. 1985. Early Projectile Points and Pleistocene Fauna from Sandpits near Wichita, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 88(1/2):46-50 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |