Cole Highway Pit: Clarendonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
    = Aphelops megalodus Cope 1873
Prothero 2005
Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras sp. Matthew 1918
Janis and Manning 1998
Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) also may be present
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914
Wang et al. 1999
"Highway Pit, 0.75 mi north of Lipscomb"
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
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]