Adobe Springs (TMM 41216) (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: Chambers Tuff Formation, Duchesnean (40.4 - 37.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: A. E. Wood. 1974. Early Tertiary vertebrate faunas, Vieja Group Trans-Pecos Texas: Rodentia. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 21:1-112 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 16821: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Twenty-five to 42 ft. above top of Buckshot Ignimbrite"
Gastropoda
  - Helminthoglyptidae
Lysinoe breedlovei2 Roth 1984 snail
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon medius1 Peterson 1934 odd-toed ungulate
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Aclistomycter middletoni3 Wilson 1971 oreodont
 Rodentia - Ischyromyidae
Ischyromys blacki n. sp. Wood 1974 rodent