Bar M: Irvingtonian, Oklahoma

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Colubridae
Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768
Brattstrom 1967
"perhaps near N. cyclopion"
    = Nerodia sp. Baird and Girard 1853
Alroy 2009
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Dasypodidae
Dasypus bellus (Simpson 1929)
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Oklahoma County:Harper
Coordinates: 36.7° North, 99.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.7° North, 99.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:there is a Locality 2, but it yielded no mammals
said to be glacial and "either Illinoian or Wisconsin" on the basis of the molluscan fauna
Metadata
Also known as:Locality 1
Database number:20151
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1907. C. W. Hibbard and D. W. Taylor. 1960. Two Late Pleistocene Faunas from Southwestern Kansas. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 16(1):1-223 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

29343 J. Alroy. 2009. High-handed opinions on taxonomy and other matters. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
30836 B. H. Brattstrom. 1967. A succession of Pliocene and Pleistocene snake faunas from the High Plains of the United States. Copeia 1967(1):188-202 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]