Adams: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Ambystoma tigrinum
(Green 1825)
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo cf. cognatus
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Emydoidea twentei
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Citellus sp.
Oken 1816
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synonym of Spermophilus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides cf. ohioensis
Foster 1838
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis latrans
Say 1823
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Equus scotti
Gidley 1900
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synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Nothrotheriidae
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Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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= Nothrotheriops texanus
Hay 1916
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McDonald 1995 | |||||||||
original and current combination Nothrotherium texanum | ||||||||||
presumably includes "Megalonyx sp." as McDonald refers to Hibbard and Taylor 1960, who describe only one xenarthran specimen from this locality | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Meade |
Coordinates: | 37.0° North, 100.5° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 37.5° North, 100.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow calcareous sandstone |
Secondary lithology: | conglomerate |
Lithology description: basal, yellow limonitic sands and gravels and associated silt lenses" | |
Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Geology comments: "stream deposits" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:"chiefly from Localities 2, 3, 4, and 5" - i.e., much of the "Butler Spring" fauna of Hibbard and Taylor 1960; underlies Butler Spring sensu stricto, but relationship to Mt. Scott is not clear most of the large mammals are not assigned to a specific locality by Hibbard and Taylor |
Metadata
Database number: | 20137 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2004-03-09 16:04:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
3081. | 5% 40280 | G. E. Schultz. 1969. Geology and paleontology of a late Pleistocene basin in southwest kansas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 105:1-85 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head] |
Secondary references:
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
2499 | H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |