Also known as TMM 31176; Meade's Quarry 6, Crawfish Ranch
Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.7° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 100.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blanco Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20023: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
NISP 184 plus perhaps a dozen
"Mt. Blanco" material of uncertain provenance: Glyptotherium texanum type Osborn 1903 Platygonus "texanus" type Gidley 1903 Rhynchotherium falconeri type Osborn 1923: Cope collection Stegomastodon "texanus" type Osborn 1924b
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Nannippus peninsulatus2, "Equus cumminsii" = Equus (Asinus) cumminsi2, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens2
Nannippus peninsulatus2 Cope 1885 hipparionine horse plus 71 isolated teeth presumably from the same locality
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens2 Cope 1892 horse plus some of 35 teeth from three quarries, and 1 specimen of Meade 1945
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"Tanupolama blancoensis" = Hemiauchenia blancoensis2, Blancocamelus meadei2, Gigantocamelus spatulus3
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Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn may include "Capromeryx sp." of Meade, which is an indeterminate antilocaprid
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"Hesperoscalops blancoensis" = Scalopus blancoensis2
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"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor2
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