Williams Farm: Irvingtonian, Kansas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys spenceri
Goodwin 1995
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Goodwin 1995 | |||||||||
| additional C. sp. is present | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Blarina brevicauda
(Say 1823)
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Jones et al. 1984 | |||||||||
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Sorex kansasensis n. sp.
McMullen 1975
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| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Rice |
| Coordinates: | 38.4° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.4° North, 97.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
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
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20566 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-04-12 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2544. | T. L. McMullen. 1975. Shrews from the Late Pleistocene of Central Kansas, with the Description of a New Species of Sorex. Journal of Mammalogy 56 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 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] |