Lapara Creek Site 8, Ten Mile Creek: Clarendonian, Texas
collected by WPA 1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Pylodictis olivaris
May 2019 1 specimen
TMM 30936-111 centrum
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Ictaluridae
Ameiurus sp. Rafinesque 1820
Anonymous 1940 1 specimen
    = Ictalurus cf. lambda
May 2019
TMM 30936-312 pectoral spine
Reptilia
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Anonymous 1940 10 specimens
    = Apalone sp. Rafinesque 1832
May 2019
TMM 30936-58, -130, -168, -200, -230, -246, -266, -318, -340, -416 carapace fragments
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811
2 specimens
    = Testudinidae indet. Batsch 1788
Anonymous 1940
    = Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
May 2019
TMM 30936-38 carapace/plastron fragments, -42 carapace fragment
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
4 specimens
    = Procamelus occidentalis Leidy 1858
May 2019
TMM 30936-52, -53 astragali, -125 metapodial, -181 astragalus
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
1 specimen
    = Prosthennops xiphidonticus
May 2019
TMM 30936-62 P4
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Ramoceros ramosus (Cope 1874)
Anonymous 1940 5 specimens
    = Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
Sellards 1941
TMM 30936-56 m3 (2), -117 m3 (2), -294 partial horn (tine)
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomerycidae indet. Lydekker 1883
Anonymous 1940
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Synthetoceras sp. Stirton 1932
    = Synthetoceras tricornatus Stirton 1932
Anonymous 1940
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hypohippus affine
Anonymous 1940
original and current combination Anchitherium (Hypohippus)
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
    = Pliohippus martini Hesse 1936
Forsten 1975
    = Equini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2002
Pliohippus cf. supremus (Leidy 1869)
Anonymous 1940
    = Pliohippus supremus Leidy 1869
Forsten 1975
    = Equini indet. Quinn 1955
Alroy 2002
Calippus regulus Johnston 1937
Forsten 1975
Calippus francisi (Hay 1924)
Anonymous 1940
    = Calippus placidus Leidy 1869
Hulbert 1988
Pliohippus pernix Marsh 1874
May 2019 2 specimens
TMM 30936-61 m3, -158 M1/M2
Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)
    = Nanippus cf. retrusus
Anonymous 1940
    = Nannippus cf. ingenuum Leidy 1885
Hulbert 1988
recombined as Cormohipparion ingenuum
replaces ID of Forsten 1975
Pseudhipparion curtivallum (Quinn 1955)
Webb and Hulbert 1986
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
    = Neohipparion cf. coloradense Osborn 1918
Anonymous 1940
    = Neohipparion occidentale Leidy 1856
Forsten 1975
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Anonymous 1940 8 specimens
    = Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
May 2019
TMM 30936-16 p4, m3, -27 p4, m3, -2 P2 (2), -55 P2, -85 tibia, -233 m2, -321 p3
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae
Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836
Anonymous 1940 5 specimens
    = Ischyrocyon gidleyi Matthew 1902
May 2019
TMM 30936-236 m2, TMM 31132-29 M2, -259 M1, -328 M2, -412 P4
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Anonymous 1940
"small canid indet."
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
4 specimens
    = Aelurodon sp. Leidy 1858
Anonymous 1940
    = Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894
May 2019
TMM 30936-17 partial humerus, -40 partial right dentary with p2, -88 partial m1, -106 m1
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus sp. Dice 1917
Anonymous 1940
Mammalia - Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Rodentia indet. Bowdich 1821
Anonymous 1940 2 specimens
    = Ceratogaulus cf. rhinoceros Matthew 1902
May 2019
misspelling Ceratogaulus rhinocerus
TMM 30936-92 upper incisor, -296 lower incisor
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Trilophodon sp. Falconer 1857
Anonymous 1940 4 specimens
    = cf. Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837
May 2019
TMM 30936-90 upper tusk fragment, -97 right M3, -289 left m3, -331 M/m2
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Live Oak
Coordinates: 28.3° North, 98.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:28.8° North, 95.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Formation:Goliad Member:Lapara
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:"cross stratification" conglomeratic,carbonaceous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "cross-bedded sand and gravel"
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Collection size:200 specimens
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:WPA Collection dates:1939
Taxonomic list comments:locality "8 1/2 miles below George West" of Weeks 1945 is fictional: Wilson 1956
Metadata
Also known as:George West; TMM 30936, Work Project No. 12592, Live Oak County Site VIII
Database number:18640
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2020-01-17 16:11:54
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
71437. Anonymous. 1939. The second quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
71451 Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71466 Anonymous. 1940. The seventh quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71464 Anonymous. 1940. The sixth quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]
1949 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
1951 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Cormohipparion and Hipparion (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Late Neogene of Florida. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 33(5):229-338 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
68632 S. R. May. 2019. The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica (22.1.15)1-129 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
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]
71494 E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
6227 S. D. Webb and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1986. Systematics and evolution of Pseudhipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Neogene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Great Plains. Contributions to Geology, the University of Wyoming, Special Paper 3:237-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]