Also known as TMM 40196
Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.5° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 92.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Fleming Formation, Early/Lower Barstovian (16.0 - 13.6 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the AMNH, TMM
Primary reference: R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18665: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jason Head and Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•"225 to 300 feet below... the Cold Spring fauna": Patton and Taylor 1971
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Rana pipiens8 Schreber 1782 Northern leopard frog "One left and one right ilia, and sacral vertebra SMPSMU 61872" (Holman, 1996:6). Definitive species assignment from Holman (1996)
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Siren miotexana8 Holman 1977 siren "One fragmentary trunk vertebra SMPSMU 61869 and four fragmentary trunk vertebrae SMPSMU 67374" (Holman, 1996:6)
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Equidae indet.2, Hypohippus sp.17, Hipparion brevidontus6, Cormohipparion goorisi13, Merychippus sejunctus11, Merychippus cf. insignis18, "Merychippus circulus" = Calippus circulus10
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"Prosthennops xiphodonticus" = Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus2, "Dyseohyus stirtoni" = Stirtonhyus xiphodonticus19
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"Prosynthetoceras trinitiensis n. sp." = Lambdoceras trinitiensis14 Patton and Taylor 1971 protoceratid | |
? Bouromeryx sp.5 Skinner et al. 1977 ruminant from "Trinity River LF" DUPLICATE REF 1139 or 1140 or 1145
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Reptilia | |
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"? Boavus affinis" = Boavus occidentalis9
"? Boavus affinis" = Boavus occidentalis9 Marsh 1871 snake "A trunk vertebra MSUVP 1421" (Holman, 1996:7)
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Ogmophis miocompactus8 Holman 1976 Mexican burrowing snake A trunk vertebra SMPSMU 63685" (Holman, 1996:7)
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Dakotaophis greeni8, Salvadora paleolineata8, Texasophis fossilis9, Neonatrix elongata9, Neonatrix infera n. sp.9
Salvadora paleolineata8 Holman 1973 colubrid snake "Four trunk vertebrae SMPSMU 63687 and one trunk vertebra MSUVP 1424" (Holman, 1996:7)
Neonatrix infera n. sp.9 Holman 1996 colubrid snake "A single trunk vertebra: Michigan State University Museum Vertebrate Paleontology No. 1423" (Holman, 1996:7)
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Eumeces miobsoletus n. sp.8
Eumeces miobsoletus n. sp.8 skink "An anterior portion of a left maxilla SMPSMU 63681 (holotype), and almost complete pre maxilla SMUMP 63682 (paraptype), and a left dentary previously referred to as Eumeces sp. indet. (Holman, 1966, SMPSMU 61874). An additional left dentary MSUVP 1420 from the 1967 material is also assigned to this species" (Holman, 1996:7)
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Alligator sp.9 Daudin 1809 alligator "Two small teeth SMPSMU 61875 and two small teeth MSUVP 1426" (Holman, 1996:9)
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