Wax Camp: Early/Lower Uintan, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Pristichampsus cf. vorax (Troxell 1925)
Busbey 1986
recombined as Boverisuchus vorax
"416576"
Globidonta indet. Brochu 1999
Brochu 2000
TM 41576-7 (fragments of left dentary and splenial)
Mammalia - Acreodi - Mesonychidae
Hessolestes sp. Peterson 1931
Gustafson 1986
    = Synoplotherium sp. Cope 1872
Tomiya et al. 2021
possibly large form of Synoplotherium (p. 16)
Mammalia - Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
? Proviverra major (Wortman 1902)
Gustafson 1986
    = Sinopa major Wortman 1902
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Amynodontidae
Amynodon advenus (Marsh 1875)
Wilson and Schiebout 1981
Mammalia - Primates - Omomyidae
Omomys carteri Leidy 1869
Williams and Kirk 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Brewster
Coordinates: 29.2° North, 103.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.5° North, 93.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2-3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Early/Lower Uintan
Age range of interval:46.20000 - 39.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Devil's Graveyard Member:Lower
Local section:BuckH Local bed:3
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Taxonomic list comments:12.1 meters above base of Fm.: Gustafson 1986b
near Whistler Squat and at the same level
Metadata
Also known as:TMM 41576
DUPLICATE REF 3667 or 3852
Database number:16650
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, P. Mannion
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-01-28 07:17:58
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3667. J. A. Wilson. 1986. Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(4):350-373 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
46696 C. A. Brochu. 2000. Fossil crocodylians from the Eocene Devil’s Graveyard and Canoe Formations, Brewster County, Texas. Texas Journal of Science 52(1):3-12 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
7606 A. B. Busbey, III. 1986. Pristichampsus cf. P. vorax (Eusuchia; Pristichampsinae) from the Uintan of West Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(1):101-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1758 E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
78605 S. Tomiya, S. P. Zack, M. Spaulding and J. J. Flynn. 2021. Carnivorous mammals from the middle Eocene Washakie Formation, Wyoming, USA, and their diversity trajectory in a post-warming world. Journal of Paleontology Memoir 95(82):1-115 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
29561 B. A. Williams and E. C. Kirk. 2008. New Uintan primates from Texas and their implications for North American patterns of species richness during the Eocene. Journal of Human Evolution 55(6):927-941 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3669 J. A. Wilson and J. A. Schiebout. 1981. Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas: Amynodontidae. Pearce-Sellards Series 33:1-62 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]