McMurry Pits 1/2: Miocene, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Hipparion shirleyi
MacFadden 1984
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MacFadden 1984 | ||||||
= "Merychippus" shirleyae
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Alroy 2002 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras meridianum
(Leidy 1865)
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Peraceras hessei
Prothero and Manning 1987
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Prosynthetoceras francisi
(Frick 1937)
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Patton and Taylor 1971 | ||||||
Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Longirostromeryx wellsi
(Matthew 1904)
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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] |