Also known as Sebits Ranch; Sibbet Ranch; Reed and Longnecker Locs. 124-A and 124-B4
Where: Lipscomb County, Texas (36.1° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, gray sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 15: Early Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 95-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18198: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•all snakes are from Higgins Quarry B
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Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel description of Dalquest and Patrick 1989 allies this to S. variegatus
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Pliosaccomys higginsensis Dalquest and Patrick 1989 pocket gopher | |
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Kansasimys dubius Wood 1936 rodent | |
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Hypolagus vetus Kellogg 1910 rabbit | |
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Aphelops malacorhinus Cope 1878 rhinoceros | |
Equinae indet.1, Hipparionini indet.1, Hippotherium sp.1, Neohipparion ? leptode, Pliohippus nobilis4
Neohipparion ? leptode Merriam 1915 hipparionine horse | |
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Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel | |
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"Pediomeryx cf. figginsi" = Yumaceras figginsi
"Pediomeryx cf. figginsi" = Yumaceras figginsi Frick 1937 ruminant not clear if this is the "P.E. Pit" record of Webb 1983, which applies to Arnett
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Antilocaprinae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
Nimravides cf. thinobates Macdonald 1948 cat listed as "N. catocopis" by Dalquest and Patrick 1989; this is probably "Machaerodus catocopis" of Burt 1931
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Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855 edentate | |
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