PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Megalonychidae

	Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae

	Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae

	Synaptomys meltoni Paulson 1961
	(1 measurement)
	= Mictomys meltoni Paulson 1961	Alroy 2002

	Reithrodontomys moorei (Hibbard 1944)
	(1 measurement)

	Ondatra annectens (Brown 1908)
	(1 measurement)

	Pedomys llanensis (Hibbard 1944)
	(1 measurement)

	Microtus paroperarius n. sp. Hibbard 1944
	(1 measurement)

	Pitymys meadensis Hibbard 1944
	(1 measurement)
	= Terricola meadensis Hibbard 1944	Alroy 2002

	Peromyscus cragini Hibbard 1944
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae

	Zapus cf. sandersi Hibbard 1956
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae

	Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839

	Geomys tobinensis (Hibbard 1944)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae

	Citellus richardsonii (Sabine 1822)
	= Spermophilus richardsonii Sabine 1822	Alroy 2002

	Citellus tridecemlineatus
	= Spermophilus cf. tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821	Alroy 2002

	Citellus franklinii
	= Spermophilus cf. lorisrusselli Hibbard 1976	Hibbard 1975
	more of a comparison than an assignment
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758	Getz 1960
	= Canis edwardii Gazin 1942	Nowak 1979
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Mustela cf. vison (Schreber 1777)	Getz 1960
	supported by Anderson et al. 1986 and Anderson 1996, contra i.d. as "M. nigripes" by Hibbard 1970c and Bjork 1973 (1 measurement)

	Mustela cf. erminea Linnaeus 1758	Getz 1960
	(2 measurements)
Mammalia - Soricidae

	Blarina sp. Gray 1838
	= Blarina brevicauda Say 1823	Jones et al. 1984

	Microsorex pratensis Hibbard 1944
	= Sorex pratensis Hibbard 1944	Alroy 2002

	Sorex cudahyensis Hibbard 1944
	(1 measurement)

	Sorex megapalustris Paulson 1961
	(1 measurement)

	Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792
	named as type of "S. c. meadensis" by Jammot 1972

	Sorex lacustris (Hibbard 1944)
	(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae

	Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Reptilia - Colubridae

	Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843	Brattstrom 1967

	Natrix sp. Laurenti 1768	Brattstrom 1967
	= Nerodia sp. Baird and Girard 1853	Alroy 2009

	Storeria sp. Baird and Girard 1853	Brattstrom 1967
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Hylidae

	Pseudacris triseriata (Wied 1838)	Chantell 1966
	"Pseudacris triseriata cf. triseriata"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Kansas	County:	Meade
Coordinates:	37.2° North, 100.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	37.2° North, 100.1° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Quaternary	Epoch:	Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:	Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:	1.4 - 0.21 m.y. ago

Stratigraphy

Formation:	"Crooked Creek"	Member:	Pearlette Ash O
Local section:	Meade	Local bed:	8
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Environment:

terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Taxonomic list comments:ash has been dated by Naeser et al. 1973 (see Rock Creek)
below type O ash according to Zakrzewski 1975 and therefore probably above the Nash localities, which underlie the type S ash, but there is no clearcut evidence to support this interpretation

Metadata

Also known as:	Cudahy ash mine (UK Loc. 10); Sunbrite ash mine (UK Loc. 17)
Database number:	20301
Authorizer:	J. Alroy	Enterer:	J. Alroy
Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-02-18 00:00:00	Last modified:	2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

2741.

G. R. Paulson. 1961. The mammals of the Cudahy Fauna. Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters 46:127-153 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]
25726		C. J. Chantell. 1966. Late Cenozoic hylids from the Great Plains. Herpetologica 22(4):259-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
24906		L. L. Getz. 1960. Middle Pleistocene carnivores from southwestern Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 41(3):361-365 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1895		C. W. Hibbard. 1975. in Athlon [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2046		C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2673		R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]