PBDB Collection

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae

	Amebelodon cf. fricki Barbour 1927
Mammalia - Megalonychidae

	Pliometanastes cf. protistus Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
	described by Hirschfeld and Webb 1968 (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Mylodontidae

	Thinobadistes wetzeli Webb 1989
	described by Webb 1989
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Protohippus gidleyi Hulbert 1988	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.

	Pliohippus nobilis Osborn 1918	Hulbert 1989
	pers. commun.: "P. sp."

	Calippus sp. (Matthew and Stirton 1930)
	= Calippus informal large	Breyer 1981
	original and current combination Protohippus (Calippus)

	Astrohippus sp. (Stirton 1940)
	original and current combination Pliohippus (Astrohippus)

	Neohipparion leptode Merriam 1915
	described by Hulbert 1987

	Cormohipparion cf. occidentale (Leidy 1856)
	= Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832	Alroy 2002
	may include "Hipparion forcei" of MacFadden 1984b, which is an advanced, probably new species of "Group 1": JA pers. obs. 1/93
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Teleoceras hicksi Cook 1927	Prothero 2005

	Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)	Prothero 1989
	pers. comm.: "T. sp."

	Aphelops mutilus Matthew 1924	Prothero 2005
	"Box T Ranch, Ranch West Draw" and "First Valley, West Pit 1"

	Aphelops malacorhinus Cope 1878	Prothero 1989
	pers. comm.: "A. sp."
Mammalia - Gelocidae

	Pseudoceras sp. Frick 1937
Mammalia - Antilocapridae

	? Osbornoceros sp. Frick 1937
	"Plioceros or Texoceros" is also listed
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae

	Pediomeryx cf. figginsi (Frick 1937)
	original and current combination Yumaceras figginsi
	described by Webb 1983
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
	= Camelidae indet. Gray 1821	Alroy 2002
	described Breyer 1983 and questioned by Schultz because it is based on a mere metatarsal

	Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880

	Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
	original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Prosthennops graffhami Schultz and Martin 1975
	= Prosthennops serus Cope 1877	Alroy 2002
	mentioned by Breyer 1981
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae

	Machairodus sp. Kaup 1833

	Nimravides cf. thinobates (Macdonald 1948)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae

	Indarctos sp. Pilgrim 1913
	mentioned by Harrison 1983
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae

	Eomellivora sp. Zdansky 1924

	Sthenictis sp. Peterson 1910
	mentioned by Breyer 1981

	Leptarctus sp. Leidy 1856
	= Leptarctus supremus n. sp. Lim et al. 2001	Lim et al. 2001
	mentioned also by Tedford et al. 1987
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Metalopex bakeri n. sp. Tedford et al. 2009	Tedford et al. 2009

	Epicyon validus (Stirton and Vanderhoof 1933)
	= Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858	Alroy 2002
	placed by Wang et al. 1999 at "Bridge Creek, Box T Ranch, north of Higgins"

	Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)	Wang et al. 1999
	"Bridge Creek, Box T Ranch, north of Higgins"

	Osteoborus sp. Stirton and VanderHoof 1933
	= Borophagus sp. Cope 1892	Alroy 2002
	large

	Osteoborus pugnator (Cook 1922)
	= Borophagus cf. pugnator Cook 1922	Alroy 2002
	confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Texas	County:	Lipscomb
Coordinates:	36.1° North, 100.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	36.4° North, 98.4° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit

Time

Period:	Neogene
10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 6
*Period:	Tertiary	*Epoch:	Miocene
Key time interval:	Hemphillian
Age range of interval:	9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Local section:	Hemph	Local bed:	5
Local order:	bottom to top

Lithology and environment

Primary lithology:	not reported
Environment:	terrestrial indet.

Taphonomy

Modes of preservation:

body

Collection methods and comments

Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:stratigraphic position based on presumed correlation of massive sandstone with mortar bed at Higgins

Metadata

Database number:	18072
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot	Enterer:	J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:	J. Alroy	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1992-08-05 00:00:00	Last modified:	2009-12-18 11:47:37
Access level:	the public	Released:	1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

6208.

G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 15: Early Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 95-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294		J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
6245		J. A. Breyer. 1981. The Kimballian land-mammal age: mene, mene, tekel, upharsin (Dan. 5:25). Journal of Paleontology 55(6):1207-1216 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1952		R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
4241		J. -D. Lim, L. D. Martin, and R. W. Wilson. 2001. A new species of Leptarctus (Carnivora, Mustelidae) from the late Miocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 75(5):1043-1046 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6328		D. R. Prothero. 1989. Personal communication regarding rhinocerotid identifications. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3244		C. Stock. 1921. Note on an Hipparion Tooth From the Siestan Deposits of the Berkeley Hills, California. University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 13(3):19-21 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
52058		R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3558		X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]