Meade's Quarry 4, Mount Blanco: Blancan, Texas
collected by WPA 1941
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx leptostomus
Cope 1893
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Meade 1945 | |||||||||
(1 measurement) | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Megatylopus sp.
(Matthew and Cook 1909)
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= Megatylopus spatula
Cope 1893
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
recombined as Gigantocamelus spatulus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus sp.
Leconte 1848
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= Platygonus bicalcaratus
Cope 1893
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Meade 1945 | |||||||||
nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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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: | small collection |
Time
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
Age range of interval: | 4.90000 - 1.80000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Blanco | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 34 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: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1941 |
Metadata
Also known as: | TMM 31175, WPA, Site 4, Work Project No. 15995 | ||
Database number: | 20022 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-01-17 14:54:40 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-05-15 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
2552 | G. E. Meade. 1945. The Blanco Fauna. University of Texas Publication 4401:509-556 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
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] |