Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 100.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Meade Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cragin in 1906; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1917. On a collection of fossil vertebrates made by Dr. F W Cragin in the Equus beds of Kansas. The Kansas University Science Bulletin 10(4):39-51 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191915: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 22.02.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Hipparion cragini n. sp." = Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
Equus leidyi Hay 1913 horse
Equus complicatus Leidy 1858 horse | |
"Camelops huerfanensis" = Camelops hesternus
"Camelops huerfanensis" = Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel | |
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat | |
Canis ? orientalis canine | |
"Mylodon harlani" = Paramylodon harlani
"Mylodon harlani" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
Reptilia | |
"Testudo equicomes n. sp." = Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) equicomes
"Testudo equicomes n. sp." = Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) equicomes Hay 1917 turtle USNM 10944 (holotype), a right epiplastron and right hypoplastron (Hay 1917, pls. 1.1–3, 3.1)
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