Jones: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Elaphe obsoleta
(Say 1823)
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Brattstrom 1967 | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Gruiformes
- Gruidae
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Grus americana
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Martin 1977 | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Hylidae
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Pseudacris sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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Pseudacris triseriata
(Wied 1838)
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| "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, 100.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 29000 ± 1300 to 26700 ± 1500 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Vanheim | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "Wisconsinan... dated by radiocarbon at 26,700 +/- 1,500 and 29,000 +/- 1,300 years BP" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: none given | |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | glacial |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | UMMP |
| Collection method comments: additional material is in the Kansas University Vertebrate Paleontology collection | |
| Taxonomic list comments:mammals reported in other references; birds described by Downs (1954) | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 76049 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-09 10:00:00 | Last modified: | 2010-01-14 18:51:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-09 10:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25726. | C. J. Chantell. 1966. Late Cenozoic hylids from the Great Plains. Herpetologica 22(4):259-264 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 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] | |
| 26755 | L. D. Martin. 1977. A whooping crane from the late Pleistocene of Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin 28(2):22-23 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |