Taylor Bayou: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected by D. F. Simmons, W. L. McClure 1972

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802
"Crayfish"
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Actinopteri - Sciaenidae
Aplodinotus grunniens Rafinesque 1819
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Ictaluridae
Ictalurus sp. Rafinesque 1820
Reptilia
Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin 1801)
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene sp. Merrem 1820
Pseudemys sp. Gray 1856
"Pseudomys sp."
    = Emydinae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Alroy 2007
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
    = Trionychidae indet. Gray 1825
Alroy 2007
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Lepus californicus Gray 1837
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Oryzomys palustris Harlan 1837
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825
Mammalia - Rodentia - Caviidae
Neochoerus sp. Hay 1926
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon cf. cinereoargenteus (Schreber 1775)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Boreostracon sp. Simpson 1929
synonym of Glyptotherium
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana catesbiana
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Harris
Coordinates: 29.6° North, 95.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.6° North, 95.0° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "late Wisconsin, 35,000 to 50,000 BP"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,red sandstone
Secondary lithology: claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "laminated clay bed 4-6.1 m below sea level (6.1-8.5 m below surface level). The main fossiliferous matrix was the reddish-organge [sic] sand interspersed between layers of clay. The clay layers contained only a few fish scales, possibly from the contact with the main fossil-bearing strata."
Environment:lacustrine indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:high glacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:D. F. Simmons, W. L. McClure Collection dates:1972
Collection method comments: specimens in the Midwestern University Collection of Fossil Vertebrates
Metadata
Database number:74470
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-06 09:50:50 Last modified:2007-09-18 13:03:57
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-06 09:50:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24979. T. C. Kaspar and W. L. McClure. 1976. The Taylor Bayou Local Fauna (Pleistocene) near Houston, Texas. Southwestern Naturalist 21(1):9-16 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]