WaKeeney (Unit C): Late/Upper Miocene, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
|
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
|
||||||||||
|
Hadrocyon sp.
Stock and Furlong 1926
|
||||||||||
|
= ? Ischyrocyon sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
|
Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
|
||||||||||
|
Kinosternon wakeeniense n. sp.
Bourque 2015
|
Bourque 2015 | |||||||||
| MSU-VP 771 (holotype), nuchal | ||||||||||
|
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
|
||||||||||
|
Pseudemys sp.
Gray 1856
|
||||||||||
| "large" | ||||||||||
|
= Emydidae indet.
Rafinesque 1815
|
Holman 1975 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Trego |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 99.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 40.1° North, 98.0° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Late/Upper Tertiary | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Miocene |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Miocene | Zone: | Clarendonian |
| Age range of interval: | 11.63000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | argillaceous sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | argillaceous siltstone |
| Lithology description: "Argillaceous sand and silt; greenish clay fraction occuring and nodules and lenses; some sand and pebble lenses" | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: "floodplain deposits" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated major elements: | none |
| Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:overlies UM-K6-59 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 18451 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | J. Alroy, B. Allen |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-12-10 18:15:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3676. | R. L. Wilson. 1968. Systematics and faunal analysis of a Lower Pliocene vertebrate assemblage from Trego County, Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 22(7):75-126 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 64337 | J. R. Bourque. 2015. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae,Kinosternon) from the middle–late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89(5):821-844 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |