Cypress Creek: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Palaeolama sp. Gervais 1869
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Megatheriidae
Eremotherium sp. Spillmann 1948
Mammalia - Notoungulata - Toxodontidae
Mixotoxodon sp. Van Frank 1957
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Harris
Coordinates: 30.0° North, 95.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° North, 95.8° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Age estimate:27.703 ± 100 to 17.080 ± 90 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Formation:Deweyville Member:Upper
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The sandy deposits generally are 3–4 m thick and overlie fine, well-rounded gravel. The
toxodont tooth was found on the contact between the sand and gravel.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine,coarse,brown,white sandy sandstone
Secondary lithology: gravel
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Hockley
Database number:145380
Authorizer:C. Jaramillo Enterer:C. Suarez-Gomez, J. Carrillo
Modifier:J. Carrillo Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-06-02 13:37:33 Last modified:2018-03-08 04:13:06
Access level:the public Released:2013-06-02 13:37:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

64960. E. L. Lundelius, V. M. Bryant, R. Mandel, K. J. Thies, and A. Thoms. 2013. The first occurrence of a toxodont (Mammalia, Notoungulata) in the United States. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(1):229-232 [C. Jaramillo/J. Carrillo]