Also known as TMM 31171, WPA, Work Project No. 15995
Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.8° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 100.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blanco Formation, Late/Upper Pliocene (3.6 - 2.6 Ma)
• 35 ft above contact with red clay
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Cope, WPA in 1891, 1941; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• TMM collection
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1892. A Contribution to a Knowledge of the Fauna of the Blanco Beds of Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44:226-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 191451: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 29.01.2018, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Testudo turgida" = Hesperotestudo turgida, "Testudo campester n. sp." = Gopherus hexagonatus2, "Testudo pertenuis n. sp." = Gopherus pertenius
"Testudo turgida" = Hesperotestudo turgida Cope 1892 turtle
"Testudo campester n. sp." = Gopherus hexagonatus2 Cope 1893 gopher tortoise AMNH 3930 (holotype), a partial shell (Hay 1908, figs. 610–613)
"Testudo pertenuis n. sp." = Gopherus pertenius Cope 1892 turtle TMM 40287-32 (holotype), shell fragments
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Mammalia | |
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"Mastodon cf. mirificus" = Mammut mirificum
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"Mastodon successor n. sp." = Stegomastodon mirificus Leidy 1858 gomphothere This species is represented by teeth in collections previously made by Prof. Cummins
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Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran A canid and three undetermined forms represent the Carnivora
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Equus sp., "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse The most abundant mammal and retaining exactly the characters of the molar teeth as originally defined
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Pliauchenia sp. Cope 1875 camel |