Rowe Ranch: Clarendonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulus sp. Cope 1878
    = Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctus fortidens Hall and Dalquest 1962
    = Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914
Alroy 2002
see also Wang et al. 1999, who list specimens from Quarries 1, 2, and 6
Tomarctus euthos (McGrew 1935)
    = Paratomarctus euthos McGrew 1935
Alroy 2002
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999, who list specimens from Quarries 1, 6, 7, and "Location 5, Quarry 3"
Epicyon haydeni (Leidy 1858)
Wang et al. 1999
"White Fish Creek... Quarry 1"
Epicyon saevus (Leidy 1858)
Baskin 1998
Whitefish Creek Quarry 1; confirmed by Wang et al. 1999, who add records at "Whitefish Creek, Quarry 7" and "Lewis Place, Location 5, Quarry 2"
Carpocyon robustus (Green 1948)
Wang et al. 1999
"Quarry 1, Spade Flats"
Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
said by Wang et al. 1999 to be from "White Fish Creek... Quarry 7"; "Quarry 4"; and "Hill top west of California Quarry"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Nimravidae
Barbourofelis cf. whitfordi (Barbour and Cook 1915)
at Rowe Ranch Quarry 7
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Cormohipparion skinneri n. sp. Woodburne 2007
Woodburne 2007
Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
JA pers. obs.: "Cormohipparion occidentale"; large, shallow-notch form at Chamberlain's Quarry No. 7
Pliohippus fossulatus (Cope 1893)
Stirton and Chamberlain 1939
see also Kelly 1998b, who places this at UCMP V-37026
Calippus regulus Johnston 1937
Hulbert 1989
pers. commun.
Calippus martini Hesse 1936
Hulbert 1989
pers. commun.
Hypohippus affinis (Leidy 1858)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
Johnston 1937
Spade Flats (3 measurements)
    = Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
Schultz 1990
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus profectus (Matthew and Cook 1909)
    = Merychyus novomexicanus Frick 1929
Alroy 2002
invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius
see Schultz and Falkenbach 1941; from "Spade Flats"
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Synthetoceras tricornatus Stirton 1932
Patton and Taylor 1971
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
Tetralophodon fricki n. sp. Osborn 1936
    = Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
Alroy 2002
Reptilia - Testudines - Kinosternoidea
Kinosternon pannekollops n. sp. Bourque 2015
Bourque 2015
FAM 12778 (holotype) from "Lewis Quarry 7", nearly complete shell of an adult, consisting of the carapace and plastron
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Donley
Coordinates: 35.0° North, 100.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 98.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Clare Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:includes Lewis Quarries 1 - 8, 11; Gidley's Three-Toed Horse Quarry; Vaugh Quarry; Leaf Hills 1 -5; Spade Flats; F:AM Whitefish Creek prospects; F:AM Chamberlain Quarries; Gidley Horse Quarry
Database number:18355
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, A. Dunhill Enterer:J. Alroy, B. Allen, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-18 11:36:42
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 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]
1032 J. A. Baskin. 1998. Evolutionary trends in the late Miocene hyena-like dog Epicyon (Carnivora, Canidae). National Science Museum Monographs 14:191-214 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
64337 J. R. Bourque. 2015. New mud turtles (Kinosternidae,Kinosternon) from the middle–late Miocene of the United States. Journal of Paleontology 89(5):821-844 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
1952 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
7560 C. S. Johnston. 1937. A skull of Teleoceras fossiger Cope, from the Clarendon Beds of Donley County, Texas. American Midland Naturalist 18(1):152-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2739 T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1971. The Synthetoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 145(2):119-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty]
6261 R. A. Stirton and W. Chamberlain. 1939. A cranium of Pliohippus fossulatus from the Clarendon lower Pliocene fauna of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 13(3):349-353 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
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]
45368 M. O. Woodburne. 2007. Phyletic diversification of the Cormohipparion occidentale complex (Mammalia; Perissodactyla, Equidae), Late Miocene, North America, and the origin of the Old World Hippotherium datum. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 306(1):1-138 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]