Coffee Cup (Eocene of the United States)

Also known as TMM 41781 (Red Hill), 42019, 41851
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852

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: Bandera Mesa Member (Devil's Graveyard Formation), Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

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

PaleoDB collection 16934: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Patricia Holroyd and Clint Boyd

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Taxonomic list

• apparently includes TMM 42153
Red Hill is well within Presidio County
overlies Montgomery Bonebed
Gastropoda
  - Helminthoglyptidae
Lysinoe breedlovei2 Roth 1984 snail
TMM 42019-19
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Yoderimyinae indet.1 Wood 1955 rodent
 Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pseudocylindrodon texanus Wood 1974 rodent
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
Ardynomys sp. Matthew and Granger 1925 rodent
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
 Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Brontotheriidae indet. Marsh 1873 brontothere
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon petersoni Wood 1926 odd-toed ungulate
TMM 42153, see Wilson and Schiebout 1984, Prothero 1996e DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
 Artiodactyla - Praetragulidae
Parvitragulus priscus Emry 1978 ruminant
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
Bathygenys sp. Douglass 1902 oreodont
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852