Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.8° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 91.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Oakville Formation, Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• "Oakville Clays of Middle Miocene age"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the USNM
• new collection made by the authors under a grant from Sam Houston State University and reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: B. Hinderstein and J. Boyce. 1977. The Miocene salamander Batrachosauroides dissimulans (Amphibia, Urodela) from East Texas. Journal of Herpetology 11(3):369-372 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 75945: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Anura indet. frog | |
Batrachosauroides dissimulans Taylor and Hesse 1943 salamander | |
Reptilia | |
Crocodylia indet. crocodilian | |
Serpentes indet. snake | |
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825 softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Parahippus leonensis Sellards 1916 anchitheriine horse | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Floridatragulus sp. White 1940 camel | |
Prosynthetoceras texanus Hay 1924 protoceratid | |
Actinopteri | |
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Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
unclassified | |
Mollusca indet. Linnaeus 1758 |