Raymondville (Site 2) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Willacy County, Texas (26.4° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 97.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Beaumont Formation, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; siltstone

• The silt-dominated sediments from which the Pleistocene fauna was collected suggest a floodplain environment that experienced regular flooding as a result of the wetter climate.
• silty loam

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 196667: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 27.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Gopherus hexagonatus Cope 1893 gopher tortoise