McMurry Pits 1/2: Miocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hipparion shirleyi MacFadden 1984
MacFadden 1984
    = "Merychippus" shirleyae
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras meridianum (Leidy 1865)
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Peraceras hessei Prothero and Manning 1987
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras francisi (Frick 1937)
Patton and Taylor 1971
Mammalia - Moschidae
Longirostromeryx wellsi (Matthew 1904)
Prothero 2008
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:San Jacinto
Coordinates: 30.5° North, 95.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.9° North, 92.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Metadata
Also known as:McMurray Pits; McMurray Place
Database number:18644
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
6244 B. J. MacFadden. 1984. Systematics and phylogeny of Hipparion, Neohipparion, Nannippus, and Cormohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Miocene and Pliocene of the New World. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 179(1):1-195 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
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]
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]