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
Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893
Meade 1945
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912
Mammalia - Camelidae
Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
    = Megatylopus spatula Cope 1893
Sellards 1941
recombined as Gigantocamelus spatulus
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
    = Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893
Meade 1945
nomen dubium belonging to Platygonus
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
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]