Valley Farms: Pleistocene, Texas
collected by WPA 1939–1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Equus complicatus
Leidy 1858
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
= Odocoileus cf. virginianus
Zimmermann 1780
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonychidae indet.
Gervais 1855
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Anonymous 1940 | |||||||||
"ground sloth" | ||||||||||
= Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Parelephas columbi
Falconer 1857
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
recombined as Mammuthus columbi | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Navarro |
Coordinates: | 32.3° North, 96.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 32.3° North, 96.2° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: 3rd terrace of Trinity River (same as Boatwright Pit) |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "cross stratification",concretionary conglomeratic sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
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: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1939–1940 |
Metadata
Also known as: | WPA, Work Project 13129, TMM 31030 | ||
Database number: | 207423 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2020-01-09 13:47:40 | Last modified: | 2020-01-17 12:51:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-01-09 13:47:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
71451. | Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 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 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
71453 | Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 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 1-29 [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] |