Parcell Ranch (Miocene to of the United States)

Also known as TMM 31075, WPA

Where: Roberts County, Texas (35.8° N, 100.7° W: paleocoordinates 36.1° N, 98.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Clarendonian to Late/Upper Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandy ash

• "sandy bentonitic material"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1939; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18307: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "late Clarendonian or Hemphillian"
NISP 4
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Reptilia
 Testudinata -
Testudinata indet.
Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp.
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
"Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus, Pliauchenia sp.
"Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus Macdonald 1956 camel
Pliauchenia sp. Cope 1875 camel
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet., Dinohippus sp., Neohipparion sp., Nannippus sp.
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955 horse
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903 hipparionine horse
"resembles N. eurystyle somewhat"
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp., Aphelops malacorhinus
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
skulls
Aphelops malacorhinus Cope 1878 rhinoceros
skull