Mt. Scott (UM-K4-53) (Pleistocene of the United States)

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)

• quarry within a paleochannel

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• "in an old channel" cut into the underlying Crooked Creek and Ballard formations
• no details given

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve

• "5 tons of fosill-bearing matrix was removed 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 20424: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 07.06.1994

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Taxonomic list

• "contains numerous remains of molluscs" described by Miller 1961 (not seen)
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex scottensis, Blarina carolinensis
Sorex scottensis Jammot 1972 long-tailed shrew
Blarina carolinensis Bachman 1837 southern short-tailed shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp.
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys australis, Peromyscus berendsensis, Peromyscus progressus, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster
Synaptomys australis Simpson 1928 mouse
Peromyscus berendsensis Starrett 1956 deer mouse
Peromyscus progressus Hibbard 1960 deer mouse
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Pedomys ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp.
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher