Nye Sink: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Anseriformes - Anatidae
Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Reptilia - Colubridae
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Brattstrom 1967
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus columbi (Falconer 1857)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys bunkeri Hibbard 1939
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Beaver
Coordinates: 37.0° North, 100.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.0° North, 100.3° 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: "Sangamon Interglacial"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:diatomaceous poorly lithified siltstone
Lithology description: "silt, clay, silty sand, and diatomaceous earth" (Lunk 1952)
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Geology comments: "a fresh water basin"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:UMMP
Taxonomic list comments:"a small duck" and "fish and amphibian remains" are also present (Lunk 1952)
Metadata
Database number:91527
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-09-30 14:38:58 Last modified:2009-09-30 17:46:53
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-30 14:38:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30838. W. A. Lunk. 1952. A hooded merganser from the late Pleistocene of Oklahoma. Condor 54:316-317 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

30836 B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]