Hidalgo Bluff: Hemingfordian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Anchitherium navasotae (Hay 1924)
Forsten 1975
Archaeohippus blackbergi (Hay 1924)
Forsten 1975
Parahippus leonensis Sellards 1916
Forsten 1975
includes "P. cf. texanus" of Forsten 1975 according to Albright 1999a
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri (Wood 1964)
Prothero and Manning 1987
"Rhinoceros?"
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras texanus (Hay 1924)
Patton 1969
Mammalia - Camelidae
Nothokemas hidalgensis n. sp. Patton 1969
Patton 1969
Floridatragulus nanus Patton 1969
Patton 1969
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides acridens (Barbour and Cook 1914)
Wang et al. 1999
    = Cynarctoides whistleri Wang and Tedford 2008
Wang and Tedford 2008
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Protosciurus sp. Black 1963
Albright 1996
Sciuropterus jamesi Lindsay 1972
    = Petauristodon jamesi Lindsay 1972
Albright 1996
Sciuropterus minimus Lindsay 1972
    = Petauristodon cf. minimus Lindsay 1972
Albright 1996
Mammalia - Rodentia - Eomyidae
Pseudotheridomys sp. Schlosser 1926
Slaughter 1981
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:18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Oakville Member:Lower Oakville
Local section:Flmng Local bed:2
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:Garvin Gully fauna; TMM 40067; TAM 47
Database number:18635
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:

1833. C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

934ETE 1536L. B. Albright. 1996. Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):458-473 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
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]
2737 T. H. Patton. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene Artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 14(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2807 D. R. Prothero and E. M. Manning. 1987. Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 61(2):388-423 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3190 B. H. Slaughter. 1981. A New Genus of Geomyoid Rodent from the Miocene of Texas and Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):111-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]
56906 X. Wang and R. H. Tedford. 2008. Fossil dogs (Carnivora, Canidae) from the Sespe and Vaqueros formations in Southern California, with comments on relationships of Phlaocyon taylori. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 41:255-272 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/J. Marcot]