Also known as UM-K3-61
Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.0° N, 100.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 100.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: lower Member (Kingsdown Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• from one bed at one locality and "beds equivalent" to it at another; said to be late Illinoian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; gray, argillaceous sandstone
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 20165: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•not clear which localities are included in the "Butler Spring" list of Hibbard and Taylor 1960, but the Adams fauna is merged into it
Mammalia | |
Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
Cynomys spenceri4, "Spermophilus richardsonii" = Urocitellus richardsonii1, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus1
Cynomys spenceri4 Goodwin 1995 prairie dog from "Butler Spring," which I presume is this locality and not one of the "Cragin Quarry" localities; "C. ludovicianus"
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Reithrodontomys cf. megalotis, Onychomys cf. leucogaster, Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster1
Reithrodontomys cf. megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Onychomys cf. leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole | |
Dipodomys cf. ordii Woodhouse 1853 Ord's kangaroo rat | |
Geomys cf. bursarius Shaw 1800 plains pocket gopher | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
Equus cf. conversidens Owen 1869 horse
Equus niobrarensis Hay 1913 horse | |
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Reptilia | |
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Amphibia | |
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Actinopteri | |
Perca flavescens perch | |
Micropterus sp. Lacépède 1802 black bass
Lepomis cyanellus sunfish | |
Ictalurus melas catfish
Ictalurus punctatus Rafinesque 1818 catfish | |
Catostomus commersoni carp-like fish |