Candelaria (TMM 40276) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 94.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower sorted facies Member (Colmena Tuff Formation), Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: J. A. Wilson. 1977. Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 25:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16535: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• lower 50 ft of unit
Gastropoda
  - Helminthoglyptidae
Polymita texana n. sp.2 Roth 1984 painted snail
Lysinoe breedlovei n. sp.2 Roth 1984 snail
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Pseudotomus cf. petersoni6 Matthew 1910 rodent
 Rodentia - Eutypomyidae
cf. Eutypomyidae indet.4 Miller and Gidley 1918 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Epihippus cf. gracilis1 Marsh 1871 horse
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Leptoreodon leptolophus5 Golz 1976 protoceratid
L. "marshi" of Wilson 1974; erroneously reported by Wilson 1974 as being from "TMM 40267"; DUPLICATE REF 3666 or 3706
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Protoreodon petersoni3 Gazin 1955 agriochoerid