TMM 40282 (Miocene to of the United States)

Where: Grimes County, Texas (30.3° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.6° N, 93.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Clarendonian to Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: A. Forsten. 1991. Size trends in Holarctic anchitherines (Mammalia, Equidae). Journal of Paleontology 65(1):147-159 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 18703: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• said to be in the Cold Spring fauna
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus affinis Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse
of "Pliohippus pachyops" see also Kelly 1998b, who claims that 1) this is the type of P. fossulatus, and 2) it is from "Clarendon"
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Gomphotherium obscurum Leidy 1869 mastodon