Wanza Farm, San Jacinto County site 5 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Point Blank fauna; TMM 31243, WPA, Work Project No. 17060

Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.7° N, 95.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 92.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Miocene (23.0 - 5.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 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 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18671: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus4 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet.1, "Merychippus vetus" = Protohippus vetus2
Hipparionini indet.1 Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
"Merychippus vetus" = Protohippus vetus2 Quinn 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras francisi3 Frick 1937 protoceratid