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; gray, white, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
• six tons of screenwashed matrix
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 20168: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel | |
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"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Onychomys cf. leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse | |
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Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
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Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent | |
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Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel | |
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Mephitis ? mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
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Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox | |
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Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Equus sp., "Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus cf. scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse | |
| Ostracoda | |
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? Cyprinotus sp. Brady 1886 ostracod | |
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Cyprideis littoralis ostracod | |
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Ilyocypris bradyi Sars 1890 ostracod | |
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Candona nyensis ostracod
Candona truncata ostracod | |