Butler Ranch, Live Oak County Site 5 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as Work Project 12592, WPA, Elm Creek

Where: Live Oak County, Texas (28.7° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 97.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1939

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1939. The first quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30,1939 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 1-22+ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 207406: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 09.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758 elephant
molar