Coetas Creek: Clarendonian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras sp.
Hatcher 1894
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Schultz 1977 | |||||||||
"rhinoceroses" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Cormohipparion sp.
Skinner and MacFadden 1977
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= Hippotherium sp.
Kaup 1832
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Pseudhipparion sp.
Ameghino 1904
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Pliohippus sp.
Marsh 1874
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Mammalia
- Merycoidodontidae
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Ustatochoerus profectus
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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= Merychyus novomexicanus
Frick 1929
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius | ||||||||||
probably "U. profectus studeri" from "20 mi. N.E. of Amarillo, Potter County" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | ||||||||||
Ustatochoerus major
(Leidy 1858)
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= Merychyus major
Leidy 1858
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
recombined as Ustatochoerus major | ||||||||||
probably "U. major texanus" from "North of Amarillo, Potter County" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1941 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aelurodon sp.
Leidy 1858
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= Aelurodon taxoides
Hatcher 1894
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
replaces ID of Schultz 1977; "canids"; said by Wang et al. 1999 to be from Bivins Ranch | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Gomphotheriidae indet.
Hay 1922
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Potter |
Coordinates: | 35.4° North, 101.9° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 35.9° North, 99.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
Age range of interval: | 13.60000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Coetas |
Lithology and environment
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:status of fm. doubted by Schultz |
Metadata
Also known as: | UCMP V-3103; Bivins Ranch | ||
Database number: | 18096 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2009-12-20 13:08:20 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
6207. | G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 14: The Clarendonian 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 83-93 [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] | |
3082 | G. E. Schultz. 1977. Guidebook field conference on Late Cenozoic biostratigraphy of the Texas panhandle and adjacent Oklahoma. Special Publication Kilgore Research Center 1:105-145 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
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] |