Low Quarry: Blancan, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Sorex taylori
Hibbard 1937
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Hesperoscalops blancoensis
Dalquest 1975
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| recombined as Scalopus blancoensis | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus bicalcaratus
Cope 1893
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus kansasensis
Hibbard 1941
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Neotoma cf. quadriplicata
(Hibbard 1941)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reithrodontomys sp.
Giglioli 1874
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Sigmodon medius
Gidley 1922
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13 specimens | |||||||||
| synonym of Sigmodon minor | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Prodipodomys centralis
(Hibbard 1941)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Perognathus cf. rexroadensis
Hibbard 1950
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Perognathus cf. pearlettensis
Hibbard 1941
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24 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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85 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Hypolagus sp.
Dice 1917
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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= Pewelagus dawsonae
White 1984
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White 1988 | |||||||||
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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= Leporinae indet.
Trouessart 1880
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of White 1991a; "Nekrolagus cf. progressus"; specimen is clearly indeterminate based on White's discussion | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon mirificus
(Leidy 1858)
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22 specimens | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Crosby |
| Coordinates: | 33.7° North, 101.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.8° North, 100.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Blanco |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 160 specimens |
| Taxonomic list comments:NISP 160 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20030 | ||
| 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:
| 1309. | W. W. Dalquest. 1975. Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas. Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University 30:1-52 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 3632 | J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |