Hidalgo Bluff (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Garvin Gully fauna; TMM 40067; TAM 47

Where: Washington County, Texas (30.1° N, 96.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.7° N, 92.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Lower Oakville Member (Oakville Formation), Hemingfordian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 18635: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Petauristodon cf. minimus1 Lindsay 1972 squirrel
Petauristodon jamesi1 Lindsay 1972 squirrel
Protosciurus sp.1 Black 1963 squirrel
 Rodentia - Eomyidae
Pseudotheridomys sp.5 Schlosser 1926 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Menoceras barbouri4 Wood 1964 rhinoceros
"Rhinoceros?"
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Archaeohippus blackbergi2 Hay 1924 anchitheriine horse
Parahippus leonensis2 Sellards 1916 anchitheriine horse
includes "P. cf. texanus" of Forsten 1975 according to Albright 1999a
Anchitherium navasotae2 Hay 1924 anchitheriine horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Nothokemas hidalgensis n. sp.3 Patton 1969 camel
Floridatragulus nanus3 Patton 1969 camel
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras texanus3 Hay 1924 protoceratid
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctoides whistleri6 Wang and Tedford 2008 bone-crushing dog