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