Also known as Lapara Creek fauna; TMM 30896, Work Project No. 12510
Where: Bee County, Texas (28.6° N, 97.7° W: paleocoordinates 29.0° N, 95.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Lapara Member (Goliad Formation), Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by WPA in 1939–1940; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
Primary reference: Anonymous. 1939. The first quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30,1939 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 1-22+ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18611: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano and Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
misidentified as Farish Ranch/Berclair by Prothero and Manning 1987
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Alligator cf. mississippiensis5 Daudin 1801 American alligator TMM 30896-280 partial skull, -335, -372 osteoderms, -357, -336 teeth
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Apalone sp.5 Rafinesque 1832 softshell turtle TMM 30896-144 hyoplastron-hypoplastron, -377 costals, -635, -636 plastron fragments
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"Gnathabelodon buckneri n. sp." = Blancotherium buckneri7
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"Hippotigris sellardsi n. sp." = Protohippus supremus7, "Calippus anatinus n. sp." = Calippus regulus7, Calippus martini4, Calippus placidus4, Hipparion tehonense5, Pseudhipparion curtivallum10, Neohipparion affine3, Hippotherium sp.1, Nannippus sp.
Hipparion tehonense5 Merriam 1916 hipparionine horse TMM 30896-537 M3, -629 P4, -630 M1/M2, -631 M1/M2
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse confirmed by Hulbert 1988c: "N. cf. ingenuum" of Forsten 1975
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Nothotylopus camptognathus5, Protolabis cf. yavapaiensis5, Procamelus grandis6, Procamelus occidentalis6
Protolabis cf. yavapaiensis5 Honey and Taylor 1978 camel TMM 30896-296 partial left dentary with p3 (roots only), p4, m1, m2, m3 (early eruption)
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Pseudoceras skinneri5 Frick 1937 ruminant TMM 30896-326 partial right dentary with p3-m3, -496 partial dentary with p3-m3
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