Adams (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.0° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: lower Member (Kingsdown Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• "basal... beds"; "probably Illinoian"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; yellow, calcareous sandstone and conglomerate

• "stream deposits"
• basal, yellow limonitic sands and gravels and associated silt lenses"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1969. Geology and paleontology of a late Pleistocene basin in southwest kansas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 105:1-85 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 20137: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "chiefly from Localities 2, 3, 4, and 5" - i.e., much of the "Butler Spring" fauna of Hibbard and Taylor 1960; underlies Butler Spring sensu stricto, but relationship to Mt. Scott is not clear

•most of the large mammals are not assigned to a specific locality by Hibbard and Taylor

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Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Nothrotheriidae
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum
"Nothrotheriops texanus" = Nothrotherium texanum Hay 1916 edentate
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp.
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Citellus sp." = Spermophilus
"Citellus sp." = Spermophilus Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus pennsylvanicus
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp.
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoroides cf. ohioensis
Castoroides cf. ohioensis Foster 1838 giant beaver
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canis latrans
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelops sp.
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp., "Equus scotti" = Equus mexicanus
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
Reptilia
 Testudines - Emydidae
Emydoidea twentei
Emydoidea twentei Blanding's turtle
Amphibia
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo cf. cognatus
 Caudata - Urodela
Ambystoma tigrinum
Ambystoma tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander