Where: Willacy County, Texas (26.4° N, 97.6° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 97.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Beaumont Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Date based on OSL analysis
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; silty claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. G. De La Garza, J. L. Gonzalez, and Z. Shen. 2018. Luminescence chronology of a Mass Grave of Giant Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus hexagonatus), Willacy County, TX. Bulletin of the South Texas Geological Society 20-33 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196665: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 27.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Gopherus hexagonatus Cope 1893 gopher tortoise |