Buckner Ranch Site 2 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as TMM 30898, Work Project No. 12510

Where: Bee County, Texas (28.6° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° N, 94.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1939; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1939. The first quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30,1939 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 1-22+ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18612: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Evangelos Vlachos

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.2 Lamarck 1801
One of the most common biologic elements obtained from the matrix washed at TMM 30898 has not yet been identified. Specimens range in size from 1 to 3 mm and include two general end member morphologies with a range of intermediate shapes
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus sp.1 Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
cf. Domninoides sp.2 Green 1956 mole
TMM 30898-22 partial M
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
cf. Pronotolagus apachensis2 Gazin 1930 rabbit
TMM 30898-24 P2, -25, -26, -27, -28 p/m
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathus cf. minutus2 James 1963 pocket mouse
TMM 30898-21 left M2
Gnathostomata
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Actinopterygii indet.2 ray-finned fish
TMM 30898-29, -30, -31, -32, -33 isolated teeth. Numerous additional teeth in collection not assigned specimen numbers
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.2 Agassiz 1843 gar