Jones (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Meade County, Kansas (37.2° N, 100.3° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 100.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Vanheim Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Wisconsinan... dated by radiocarbon at 26,700 +/- 1,500 and 29,000 +/- 1,300 years BP"

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

• none given

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the UMMP

• additional material is in the Kansas University Vertebrate Paleontology collection

Primary reference: C. J. Chantell. 1966. Late Cenozoic hylids from the Great Plains. Herpetologica 22(4):259-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76049: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• mammals reported in other references; birds described by Downs (1954)
Amphibia
 Salientia - Hylidae
Pseudacris sp. Fitzinger 1843 chorus frog
Pseudacris triseriata Wied 1838 western chorus frog
"Pseudacris triseriata cf. triseriata"
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Thamnophis sp.1 Fitzinger 1843 garter snake
Elaphe obsoleta1 Say 1823 black rat snake
Aves
 Gruiformes - Gruidae
Grus americana2 Linnaeus 1758 Whooping crane