West of Bonner Springs: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Kansas
collected by Stanley Rasmussen 1984
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castoroides sp.
Foster 1838
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Kansas | County: | Wyandotte |
| Coordinates: | 39.1° North, 94.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 39.1° North, 94.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| 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 |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: "late Wisconsinan" |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
| Environment: | fluvial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Stanley Rasmussen | Collection dates: | 1984 |
| Collection method comments: specimen apparently not reposited in a museum collection | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 83076 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-08-06 20:11:55 | Last modified: | 2008-08-06 23:11:55 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-08-06 20:11:55 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 27905. | J. B. Slowinski. 1989. A Castoroides ulna from the Kansas River. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 92(1/2):113-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |