Valley Farms: Pleistocene, Texas
collected by WPA 1939–1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Equus complicatus Leidy 1858
Sellards 1941
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
    = Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Sellards 1941
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Anonymous 1940
    = Odocoileus cf. virginianus Zimmermann 1780
Sellards 1941
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonychidae indet. Gervais 1855
Anonymous 1940
"ground sloth"
    = Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Sellards 1941
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Parelephas columbi Falconer 1857
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]