Also known as Lapara Creek fauna; Site 17; Bridge Estate; TMM 31132, WPA, Work Project No. 12510
Where: Bee County, Texas (28.6° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 95.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lapara Member (Goliad Formation), Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; massive sandstone and yellow, calcareous claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by WPA in 1941; 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 18610: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot, Evangelos Vlachos and Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
any Teleoceras is T. cf. major: Prothero and Manning 1987
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Merychippus sp., Protohippus supremus1, Pliohippus sp., Dinohippus subvenus n. sp.9, Calippus regulus2, Calippus martini4, Calippus placidus4, Neohipparion affine3, Hipparion tehonense6, Pseudhipparion curtivallum11, Hippotherium sp.1, "Nannippus cf. ingenuum" = Cormohipparion ingenuum5, Hypohippus affinis2
Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856 horse
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Pseudoceras skinneri6 Frick 1937 ruminant TMM 31132-4 partial dentary with dp4, -331 partial left dentary with m2-m3
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Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel | |
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Aelurodon taxoides6 Hatcher 1894 bone-crushing dog TMM 31132-12 canine, -165 canine, -458 left dentary with c, p2-4, m1-2, -478 incisor, -787 canine
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"Ceratogaulus cf. rhinoceros" = Ceratogaulus rhinocerus6
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Hesperotestudo sp.6 Williams 1950 turtle TMM 31132-82 dermal ossicle, -460 humerus, -770 carapace and plastron fragments
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