Iron Bridge: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus scotti Gidley 1900
38 specimens
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
21 specimens
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
5 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison cf. latifrons (Harlan 1825)
4 specimens
does not include 20 non-diagnostic specimens
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Tetrameryx shuleri Lull 1921
2 specimens
(3 measurements)
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
4 specimens
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Holmesina septentrionalis (Leidy 1889)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus cf. imperator (Leidy 1858)
5 specimens
synonym of Mammuthus columbi
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
8 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Rains
Coordinates: 32.8° North, 95.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.8° North, 95.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Local age/stage:Sangamonian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Sangamonian
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:interglacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:89 specimens
Museum repositories:TMM
Taxonomic list comments:lat 32 49' 30" N, long 95 54' 45" W
channel lag deposit sensu Behrensmeyer
NISP 89
said to be Sangamonian based on fauna
Metadata
Also known as:ET Locality 60; TMM 40436
Database number:20603
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1997-06-02 00:00:00 Last modified:2007-09-17 17:46:40
Access level:the public Released:1997-06-02 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

2784. J. D. Pinsof and J. Echols. 1997. A late Pleistocene (Sangamonian) vertebrate fauna from eastern Texas. Texas Journal of Science 49(1):3-22 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]