Where: Washita County, Oklahoma (35.4° N, 98.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "bone samples from the site were radiocarbon dated... These samples yielded an average date of 16,350±190 years before present (YBP)"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray, silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: H. Kirkland, Jr., M. Davis, J. Wood, D. Devine, and K. Giblet. 1997. Some Late Pleistocene Fossils from Washita Local Fauna. Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences 77:113-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93178: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Cynomys ludovicianus Ord 1815 black-tailed prairie dog | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Bootherium bombifrons, "Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus
Bootherium bombifrons Harlan 1825 antelope
"Bison occidentalis" = Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison | |
Equus excelsus Leidy 1858 horse | |
cf. Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew |