Where: Harris County, Texas (29.7° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.7° N, 95.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "approximately 12 feet below the top of the bank" and "From Pleistocene sediments, presumably of post-Mankato age... resting at the bottom of the Beaumont [clays], overlying the Lissie [sands]... five to twenty thousand years should encompass the possibilities" and the specimen likely "is much closer to five" thousand years

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. H. Dawdy in 1955; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• apparently recovered "after a drag-line operation at the site" and "The specimen was removed by the usual plaster block technique"

•University of Texas (= TMM) collection

Primary reference: G. T. James. 1957. An edentate from the Pleistocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 31(4):796-808 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85136: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 02.12.2008

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