Cole Highway Pit: Clarendonian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Mylagaulidae
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Mylagaulidae indet.
Cope 1881
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Aphelops megalodus
Cope 1873
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Teleoceras major
Hatcher 1894
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Palaeomerycidae
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Cranioceras sp.
Matthew 1918
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Janis and Manning 1998 | |||||||||
Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) also may be present | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynarctus crucidens
Barbour and Cook 1914
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
"Highway Pit, 0.75 mi north of Lipscomb" | ||||||||||
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: | Lipscomb |
Coordinates: | 36.1° North, 100.1° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.5° North, 97.6° 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
Local section: | Hemph | Local bed: | 1 |
Local order: | bottom to top | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
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: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 18098 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
Modifier: | B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-07-29 09:56:45 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 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:
2014 | C. M. Janis and E. Manning. 1998. Dromomerycidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 477-490 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
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] |