Wax Camp (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as TMM 41576
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852

Where: Brewster County, Texas (29.2° N, 103.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.5° N, 93.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Member (Devil's Graveyard Formation), Early/Lower Uintan (46.2 - 40.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: J. A. Wilson. 1986. Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(4):350-373 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 16650: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Philip Mannion and Patricia Holroyd

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Taxonomic list

• 12.1 meters above base of Fm.: Gustafson 1986b
near Whistler Squat and at the same level
Mammalia
 Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri5 Leidy 1869 tarsier
 Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodon advenus6 Marsh 1875 odd-toed ungulate
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Sinopa major1 Wortman 1902 creodont
 Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Synoplotherium sp.4 Cope 1872 condylarth
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Planocraniidae
"Pristichampsus cf. vorax" = Boverisuchus vorax3
"Pristichampsus cf. vorax" = Boverisuchus vorax3 Troxell 1925 crocodilian
"416576"
 Crocodylia -
Globidonta indet.2 Brochu 1999 crocodilian
TM 41576-7 (fragments of left dentary and splenial)