Cedar Run: Hemingfordian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Daphoenodon superbus (Peterson 1907)
    = Daphoenodon sp. Peterson 1909
Albright 1998
replaces ID of J. Wilson 1960; BEG specimen collected after Wood and Wood
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Phlaocyon minor (Matthew 1907)
Wang et al. 1999
Canidae indet.
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Parahippus texanus (Leidy 1868)
    = Anchippus cf. texanus Leidy 1868
Forsten 1975
recombined as Desmatippus texanus
confirmed by Albright 1999a
Archaeohippus blackbergi (Hay 1924)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Diceratherium annectens (Marsh 1873)
Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
    = Nexuotapirus marslandensis Schoch 1984
Albright 1998
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Albright 1999
not the same as original, erroneous record of Wood and Wood
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Blastomeryx texanus (Hay 1924)
    = Prosynthetoceras sp. Frick 1937
Albright 1999
original and current combination Synthetoceras (Prosynthetoceras)
? Protoceras sp. Marsh 1891
Albright 1998
Mammalia - Moschidae
Problastomeryx primus (Matthew 1908)
Prothero 2008
"AMNH 30085"
Mammalia - Rodentia
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
squirrel-sized
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Palaeocastor barbouri (Peterson 1905)
    = Pseudopalaeocastor cf. barbouri Peterson 1905
Alroy 2002
Palaeocastor cf. simplicidens (Matthew 1907)
    = Fossorcastor cf. fossor Peterson 1905
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Palaeolagus sp. Leidy 1856
    = Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Wood 1940
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Washington
Coordinates: 30.1° North, 96.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.7° North, 92.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
Stage:Burdigalian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:20.43000 - 15.97000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oakville
Local section:Flmng Local bed:1
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:TMM
Metadata
Also known as:TMM 40068; Cedar Creek; Derrick Farm in part
Database number:18617
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-20 12:53:48
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3749. H. E. Wood and A. E. Wood. 1937. Mid-Tertiary Vertebrates from the Texas Coastal Plain: Fact and Fable. American Midland Naturalist 18(1):129-146 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

936 L. B. Albright. 1998. The Arikareean Land Mammal Age in Texas and Florida: Southern extension of Great Plains faunas and Gulf Coastal Plain. Geological Society of America Special Paper 325:167-183 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
935 L. B. Albright. 1998. New genus of tapir (Mammalia: Tapiridae) from the Arikareean (earliest Miocene) of the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(1):200-217 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
9375% 600L. B. Albright. 1999. Ungulates of the Toledo Bend local fauna (late Arikareean, early Miocene), Texas Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences 42(1):1-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]
6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1504 A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
51726 D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
51375 D. R. Prothero. 2008. Systematics of the musk deer (Artiodactyla: Moschidae: Blastomerycinae) from the Miocene of North America. In S. G. Lucas, G. S. Morgan, J. A. Spielmann, D. R. Prothero (eds.), Neogene Mammals 44:207-223 [J. Marcot/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]
3727 A. E. Wood. 1940. The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part III. Lagomorpha. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 28(3):271-362 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]