Duck Creek Locality 1: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex kansasensis
McMullen 1975
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Sorex scottensis
Jammot 1972
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus richardsonii
(Sabine 1822)
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| recombined as Urocitellus richardsonii | |||||||
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Thomomys talpoides
(Richardson 1828)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Synaptomys borealis
(Richardson 1828)
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= Mictomys borealis
Richardson 1828
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
| recombined as Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis | |||||||
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Clethrionomys gapperi
(Vigors 1830)
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Ondatra zibethicus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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Microtus ochrogaster
(Wagner 1842)
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= Pedomys ochrogaster
Wagner 1842
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
| recombined as Microtus ochrogaster | |||||||
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Ellis |
| Coordinates: | 38.9° North, 99.4° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.9° North, 99.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Illinoian |
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Illinoian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:"Duck Creek" locality yielding Cynomys and Synaptomys is said by Goodwin 1995a to be late Wisconsinan contra McMullen, but it is not clear which of these localities this includes; Goodwin 1995b repeats the "late Rancholabrean" assignment but gives no useful details |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20312 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2545. | T. L. McMullen. 1978. Mammals of the Duck Creek Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene of Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 59(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |