Site 15, Medio Creek, Parrish Ranch (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as WPA, Work Project No. 12510

Where: Bee County, Texas (28.5° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 28.9° N, 95.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Goliad Formation, Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1940

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1940. The sixth quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30, 1940 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 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 207452: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 10.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Some twelve or thirteen genera of Pliocene animals were represented in the fossils collected from Site No. 15, but there has not yet been opportunity to prepare these fossils for study"
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Rodentia indet.1 Bowdich 1821 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops sp.2 Owen 1845 rhinoceros
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
Teleoceras sp.1 Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus sp.2 Leidy 1858 anchitheriine horse
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903 hipparionine horse
Calippus sp.1 Matthew and Stirton 1930 horse
Pliohippus sp.1 Marsh 1874 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp.1 Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Protolabis sp.1 Cope 1876 camel
Megatylopus sp.2 Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
"Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus2 Macdonald 1956 camel
Procamelus sp.2 Leidy 1858 camel
Pliauchenia sp. Cope 1875 camel
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Protoceratidae indet.2 Marsh 1891 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomeryx sp.1 Cope 1877 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomerycidae indet.1 Lydekker 1883 ruminant
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet.2 Gray 1866 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Metoreodon sp." = Merychyus2
"Metoreodon sp." = Merychyus2 Leidy 1858 oreodont
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet.1 Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet.1 Fischer de Waldheim 1817 canid
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium2
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium2 Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
Reptilia
 Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 turtle
"at least 2"
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx sp.2 Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp.1 Daudin 1809 alligator
Aves
  -
Aves indet.2 Linnaeus 1758 bird
Actinopteri
 Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp.1 Agassiz 1843 gar
 Siluriformes - Siluridae
Ameiurus sp.1 Rafinesque 1820 catfish