Discovery Site (Fort Polk): Barstovian, Louisiana

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
1 specimen
"Gomphotheriidae indet." of Schiebout 1997a
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
Schiebout and Ting 2000 1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Merychippus gunteri Simpson 1930
5 specimens
"Equidae indet." of Schiebout 1997a; includes one additional specimen of Schiebout and Ting 2000 (1 measurement)
Merychippus cf. goorisi (MacFadden and Skinner 1981)
Schiebout and Ting 2000 2 specimens
original and current combination Cormohipparion goorisi
(3 measurements)
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras francisi (Frick 1937)
7 specimens
includes additional three specimens reported by Schiebout and Ting 2000
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897
Schiebout and Ting 2000 1 specimen
"Cynorca or Dyseohyus"
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
cf. Merychyus sp. Leidy 1858
Schiebout and Ting 2000 1 specimen
Mammalia - Camelidae
? Aepycamelus sp. Macdonald 1956
Schiebout and Ting 2000 2 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Miomustela sp. Hall 1930
Schiebout and Ting 2000 1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp. Wood 1936
14 specimens
see also Schiebout and Ting 1996; Schiebout and Ting 2000 indicate that there are only 8 specimens, reason for discrepancy is unclear
Mammalia - Rodentia
Proheteromys sp. Wood 1932
10 specimens
    = Geomyoidea indet. Bonaparte 1845
Alroy 2002
"Heteromyidae indet." of Schiebout 1977a; NISP based on Schiebout and Ting 2000
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castoridae indet. Gray 1821
3 specimens
including one "Monosaulax sp." specimen, earlier referred to "Castoridae indet." by Schiebout 1997a and later to "Eucastor sp." said to be new by Schiebout and Ting 2000, who also report one new specimen of this form and another of "Eucastor cf. pansus"
Mammalia - Rodentia
Texomys ritchiei Slaughter 1981
34 specimens
"T. sp." of Schiebout 1997a; NISP based on Schiebout and Ting 2000
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Nototamias sp. Pratt and Morgan 1989
Schiebout and Ting 2000 1 specimen
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
cf. Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
Schiebout 1997 1 specimen
slight chance this is the lagomorph specimen from TVOR
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Antrozous sp. Allen 1862
1 specimen
a bat:
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Louisiana County:Vernon
Coordinates: 31.1° North, 93.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.6° North, 90.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Barstovian
Age range of interval:16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fleming Member:Castor Creek
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve
Collection size:70 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:actually in Vernon "Parish"
apparently does not include new material reported by Schiebout and Ting 1996, Ting and Schiebout 1997, of which Eomyidae indet. of the former cannot be allocated to an exact sites
total generically identifiable NISP 70
Metadata
Database number:18621
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1998-09-21 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-03-21 05:33:37
Access level:the public Released:1998-09-21 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3030. J. A. Schiebout. 1997. Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at two locations on Fort Polk, Louisiana. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District; Contract No. DACW63-90-D-0008, Delivery Order 13 [No sponsoring agency report number given] 1-92 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
3029 J. A. Schiebout. 1997. The Fort Polk Miocene terrestrial microvertebrate sites compared to those from East Texas. Texas Journal of Science 49(1):23-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
4152 J. A. Schiebout and S. Ting. 2000. Paleofaunal survey, collecting, processing, and documentation at locations in the Castor Creek Member, Miocene Fleming Formation, Fort Polk, Louisiana. Louisiana State University Report to the Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District, Texas, USA 1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]