Also known as The Lookout
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: lower Member (Kingsdown Formation), Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• material apparently is from a single, 31 inch thick bed
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, green, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve
• "27 tons of matrix were removed from the quarry for washing"
Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard. 1963. A late Illinoian fauna from Kansas and its climatic significance. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 48:187-221 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 20423: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.06.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
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Mammalia | |
Lasiurus cinereus Palisot de Beauvois 1796 hairy-tailed bat | |
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 arctic shrew
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew | |
"Mustela vison" = Neogale vison
"Mustela vison" = Neogale vison Schreber 1777 mink | |
Bison cf. latifrons Harlan 1825 bison | |
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse | |
Oryzomys palustris1, Peromyscus sp., Peromyscus berendsensis, Peromyscus progressus, Reithrodontomys sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster, Ondatra zibethicus, Neotoma cf. floridana, Synaptomys australis
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Peromyscus berendsensis Starrett 1956 deer mouse
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928 mouse | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog | |
Reptilia | |
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Thamnophis proximus2, Diadophis punctatus2, Storeria cf. dekayi2, Regina grahami2, Nerodia sipedon2, Pituophis melanoleucus2, Coluber cf. constrictor2, Lampropeltis getulus2
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"Crotalinae indet." = Crotalidae2
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