Associated Material and Supply Company Sandpit (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Sedgwick County, Kansas (37.8° N, 97.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 97.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• from "about thirty feet below the surface"

Environment/lithology: fluvial; conglomeratic sandstone

• pit is in a sand with a "coarse fraction" of "'mud balls' [and] water rolled cobbles" but fossils are apparently from a "clay and silt level"

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying

Primary reference: R. A. Rogers and L. D. Martin. 1985. Early Projectile Points and Pleistocene Fauna from Sandpits near Wichita, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 88(1/2):46-50 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 83069: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human
"a small fragment of a human skull cap"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp.
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
"Bison bison" = Bos bison, Bison antiquus
"Bison bison" = Bos bison Linnaeus 1758 American bison
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp.
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth