Adobe Springs (TMM 41211) (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as Porvenir L.F., in part
Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 95.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Duchesnean (39.7 - 37.0 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 16819: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• 20 - 50 foot thick interval immediately below the "lower marker bed" and therefore at about the level of the Big Red Horizon; could be used as a calibration point based on superposition above Buckshot Ignimbrite, but distance above it is ambiguous (see Big Red Horizon)
composite Adobe Springs list is given by Wilson in fig. 8 and on p. 21
composite Adobe Springs list is given by Wilson in fig. 8 and on p. 21
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"Miacis australis" = Angelarctocyon australis1
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