Gay Hill, San Jacinto County site 1 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Point Blank fauna; TMM 31190; Ella McMurray Farm, 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 18627: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• UNSM sample listed by Hinderstein and Boyce 1977
stratigraphically beneath Cold Spring
"29 specimens"
Angiospermae
 Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry
Gnathostomata
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Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator
 Testudinata -
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Edaphocyon pointblankensis n. sp.7 Wilson 1960 procyonid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
Paratomarctus temerarius6 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus gunteri2 Simpson 1930 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras meridianum5 Leidy 1865 rhinoceros
Aphelops megalodus5 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
Peraceras hessei5 Prothero and Manning 1987 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet.3 Gray 1821 camel
Floridatragulus texanus4 Patton 1969 camel
may include "Palaeomerycidae indet."; Hinderstein and Boyce 1977 list "Floridatragulus sp."
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras texanus4 Hay 1924 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomerycidae indet. Lydekker 1883 ruminant
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Plesiosminthus sp.1 Viret 1926 jumping mouse
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar
 Siluriformes - Siluridae
Ameiurus sp. Rafinesque 1820 catfish