Janes Quarry: Hemphillian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Nannippus lenticularis (Cope 1893)
synonym of Cormohipparion ingenuum
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
probably o.k. as Winkler was aware of Hulbert's work
Mammalia - Camelidae
Alforjas sp. Harrison 1979
Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus)
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Epicyon validus (Stirton and Vanderhoof 1933)
    = Epicyon haydeni Leidy 1858
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Crosby
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 101.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.0° North, 99.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Hemphillian
Age range of interval:10.30000 - 4.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Bridwell Member:basal
Local section:Bridw Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
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:18211
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-09-06 21:08:09
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3715. D. A. Winkler. 1990. Sedimentary Facies and Biochronology of the Upper Tertiary Ogallala Group, Blanco and Yellow House Canyons, Texas Panhandle. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains 39-55 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]