Williams Farm (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Rice County, Kansas (38.4° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 97.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• said to be Illinoian

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: T. L. McMullen. 1975. Shrews from the Late Pleistocene of Central Kansas, with the Description of a New Species of Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy 56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20566: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.04.1997

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys spenceri1 Goodwin 1995 prairie dog
additional C. sp. is present
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Blarina brevicauda2 Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew
Sorex kansasensis n. sp. McMullen 1975 long-tailed shrew