near Mount Blanco, Site 5: Late/Upper Pliocene, Texas
collected by Cope, WPA 1891, 1941

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Teeth and fragments of skull
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Mylodon sp. Owen 1859
Anonymous 1941
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
A canid and three undetermined forms represent the Carnivora
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus simplicidens Cope 1892
recombined as Plesippus simplicidens
The most abundant mammal and retaining exactly the characters of the molar teeth as originally defined
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Camelidae
Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
Anonymous 1941
original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus)
Pliauchenia sp. Cope 1875
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Anonymous 1941
Mastodon successor n. sp. Cope 1892
synonym of Stegomastodon mirificus
This species is represented by teeth in collections previously made by Prof. Cummins
Mastodon cf. shepardii Leidy 1870
nomen dubium belonging to Gomphotheriidae
One molar obtained
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mastodon cf. mirificus (Leidy 1858)
misspelling Mammut mirificum
Rather common
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo turgida Cope 1892
recombined as Hesperotestudo turgida
Testudo campester n. sp. Hay 1908
Hay 1908
synonym of Testudo hexagonata
AMNH 3930 (holotype), a partial shell (Hay 1908, figs. 610–613)
Testudo pertenuis n. sp. (Cope 1892)
nomen dubium belonging to Testudinidae
TMM 40287-32 (holotype), shell fragments
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Crosby
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 101.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.9° North, 100.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Pliocene
Stage:Piacenzian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliocene
Age range of interval:3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Blanco
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: 35 ft above contact with red clay
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:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:Cope, WPA Collection dates:1891, 1941
Collection method comments: TMM collection
Metadata
Also known as:TMM 31171, WPA, Work Project No. 15995
Database number:191451
Authorizer:E. Vlachos, M. Carrano Enterer:E. Vlachos, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2018-01-29 11:40:08 Last modified:2020-01-17 14:55:59
Access level:the public Released:2018-01-29 11:40:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
64597. E. D. Cope. 1892. A Contribution to a Knowledge of the Fauna of the Blanco Beds of Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 44:226-229 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]

Secondary references:

71468 Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 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 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
14442ETE O. P. Hay. 1908. The fossil turtles of North America. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 75:1-568 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
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]