Bennett Farm, San Jacinto County site 4 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Point Blank fm; Site 4; TMM 31242, WPA, Work Project No. 17060

Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.7° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 92.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fleming Formation, Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18608: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• same level as Gay Hill
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus3 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
Peraceras hessei3 Prothero and Manning 1987 rhinoceros
Teleoceras meridianum3 Leidy 1865 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Merychippus goorisi" = Cormohipparion goorisi2, Merychippus gunteri1, "Calippus francisi" = Calippus proplacidus1, Protohippus vetus n. sp.4
"Merychippus goorisi" = Cormohipparion goorisi2 MacFadden and Skinner 1981 hipparionine horse
Merychippus gunteri1 Simpson 1930 horse
"Calippus francisi" = Calippus proplacidus1 Osborn 1918 horse
Protohippus vetus n. sp.4 Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras sp.5 Frick 1937 protoceratid
TMM 31242