Coetas Creek: Clarendonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Schultz 1977
"rhinoceroses"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion sp. Skinner and MacFadden 1977
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Pseudhipparion sp. Ameghino 1904
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus profectus (Matthew and Cook 1909)
    = Merychyus novomexicanus Frick 1929
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)
    = Merychyus major Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
recombined as Ustatochoerus major
probably "U. major texanus" from "North of Amarillo, Potter County" of Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon sp. Leidy 1858
    = Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
Wang et al. 1999
replaces ID of Schultz 1977; "canids"; said by Wang et al. 1999 to be from Bivins Ranch
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
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]