Site 18, Richards farm, east of Normanna (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as WPA, Work Project No. 12510, TMM 31184

Where: Bee County, Texas (28.5° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 95.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Blanco Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: surface (float), 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: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 207489: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903 hipparionine horse
Calippus sp. Matthew and Stirton 1930 horse
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary
 Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836 bear-dog
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator
 Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle