Bishop gravel pit no. 2: Pleistocene, Texas
collected by WPA 1939

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus complicatus Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Henderson
Coordinates: 32.2° North, 96.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.2° North, 95.9° West
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: same terrace as Boatwright pit
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: gravel
Includes fossils?Y
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
Collectors:WPA Collection dates:1939
Collection method comments: "one stone image was found in this pit"
Metadata
Also known as:WPA, Work Project No. 13129, TMM 30892, 30893
Database number:207541
Authorizer:M. Carrano Enterer:M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:2020-01-17 13:02:57 Last modified:2020-01-17 13:03:26
Access level:the public Released:2020-01-17 13:02:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
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]