Arkalon: Irvingtonian, Kansas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides sp. Foster 1838
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus calobatus (Troxell 1915)
synonym of Equus francisci
Equus scotti Gidley 1900
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
Nowak 1979
"C. priscolatrans" of Kurten and Anderson 1980
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus haroldcooki (Hay 1928)
    = Mammuthus imperator Leidy 1858
Madden 1983
synonym of Mammuthus columbi
"M. columbi" of Madden 1980
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Kansas County:Seward
Coordinates: 37.1° North, 100.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.1° North, 100.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:"Crooked Creek"
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:stratigraphic level unclear in light of Zakrzewski 1975
specimen Mammuthus cf. imperator from channel cut into main fossiliferous level
Metadata
Database number:20148
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1870. C. W. Hibbard. 1953. The Insectivores of the Rexroad Fauna, Upper Pliocene of Kansas. Journal of Paleontology 27(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

2391 C. T. Madden. 1983. More earliest isotopically dated Mammuthus from North America. Quaternary Research 19(2):275-277 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]