Avenue Area B: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected by E. Lundelius, A. Briggs, B. Bryant 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana cf. catesbiana
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Urodela indet. (Duméril 1805)
Reptilia - Colubridae
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Glossotherium harlani (Owen 1840)
recombined as Paramylodon harlani
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys cf. bursarius (Shaw 1800)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874
Ondatra zibethicus (Linnaeus 1766)
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
M. pinetorum or M. ochrogaster
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815)
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858
Onychomys leucogaster (Wied-Neuwied 1841)
(1 measurement)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale sp. Gray 1865
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Travis
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 98.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.3° North, 98.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Altitude:450 feet
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
Age estimate:17220 ± 1870 to 12170 ± 3060 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: "The bones were encountered at a depth of eighteen feet" and there are radiocarbon dates on "organic material from the clay immediately surrounding the bones" of "17 220 +/- 1870"; "12 170 +/- 3060"; and "15 970 +/- 860"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green claystone
Lithology description: "red-brown clay" and "grey-green clay"
Environment:mire/swamp
Glacial or sequence phase:late glacial
Geology comments: "the site was not a large pond or channel. A marsh seems more likely"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,salvage,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:1.000
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:E. Lundelius, A. Briggs, B. Bryant Collection dates:1985
Collection method comments: deposit was discovered during "excavations connected with the construction of the Temple-Inland Building" and "small bones were recovered by wet sieving matrix from area B using 1 mm screen"
Metadata
Also known as:TMM 43067
Database number:93143
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-05 19:40:18 Last modified:2010-01-14 18:46:17
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-05 19:40:18
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
31473. E. L., J.r. Lundelius. 1992. The Avenue Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene vertebrates from terrace deposits at Austin, Texas. Annales Zoologici Fennici 28:329-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]