Red Light (TMM 40857): Blancan, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Sigmodon hudspethensis
Strain 1966
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Onychomys sp.
Baird 1858
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Nerterogeomys paenebursarius
(Strain 1966)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Prodipodomys sp.
Hibbard 1939
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Perognathus sp.
Maximillian 1839
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= Perognathinae indet.
Coues 1875
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| comparisons to "P." hispidus, P. merriami, and P. penincillatus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus peninsulatus
(Cope 1885)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Hudspeth |
| Coordinates: | 31.5° North, 105.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.6° North, 104.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Key time interval: | Blancan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Love |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection size: | 12 specimens |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
| Taxonomic list comments:"most of the microvertebrate material" NISP 12 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20053 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-05-19 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 928. | W. A. Akersten. 1972. Red Light Local Fauna (Blancan) Of The Love Formation, Southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 20:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] |