Hogeye Tuff (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as TMM 40410

Where: Hudspeth County, Texas (31.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 96.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: upper Member (Hogeye Tuff Formation), 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 16843: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

• stratigraphic level relative to the Vieja sequence not completely certain; equivalent to some part of the Chambers Tuff
Mesohippus may be the only specimen from TMM 40410
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Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus texanus
Mesohippus texanus McGrew 1971 anchitheriine horse
TMM 40410: McGrew 1971
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet.
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
"Titanothere"
 Artiodactyla - Agriochoeridae
Agriochoerus antiquus
Agriochoerus antiquus Leidy 1850 agriochoerid
 Artiodactyla - Leptomerycidae
Leptomerycidae indet.
Leptomerycidae indet. Zittel 1893 ruminant