Airstrip (TMM 40504) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Capote Mountain Tuff Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 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 16888: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• Hyracodon sp. and "? Prodesmatochoerus cf. meekae" are at other Airstrip localities (see)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
aff. Pseudocylindrodon sp.1 Burke 1935 rodent
Pseudocylindrodon aff. pintoensis1 Ferrusquia and Wood 1969 rodent
Ardynomys occidentalis Burke 1936 rodent
see Wood 1974
 Rodentia -
Nonomys simplicidens1 Emry and Dawson 1972 rodent
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon raineyi3 Gustafson 1986 creodont
 Carnivora - Canidae
Prohesperocyon wilsoni3 Gustafson 1986 canid
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Poebrotherium chadronense n. sp.4, "Poebrotherium franki n. sp." = Stevenscamelus franki4
Poebrotherium chadronense n. sp.4 Prothero 1996 camel
large P. sp. described by Wilson 1974
"Poebrotherium franki n. sp." = Stevenscamelus franki4 Wilson 1974 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Limnenetes cf. platyceps Douglass 1902 oreodont
see Wilson 1971a
Bathygenys reevesi Wilson 1971 oreodont
see Wilson 1971a
 Artiodactyla - Praetragulidae
Parvitragulus priscus2 Emry 1978 ruminant