Also known as Cragin Quarry, in part
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: upper Member (Kingsdown Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• from one horizon
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; red, sandy siltstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• "Six tons of matrix were collected and washed"
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 20167: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Reithrodontomys megalotis, Onychomys cf. leucogaster, Peromyscus progressus, Microtus pennsylvanicus
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Onychomys cf. leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole | |
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Reptilia | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle
Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise | |
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Amphibia | |
Ambystoma cf. tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander | |
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854 Woodhouse's toad | |
Rana sp. Linnaeus 1758 frog | |
Scaphiopus sp. Holbrook 1836 spadefoot toad |