Gravel Pit at Temple (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Bell County, Texas (31.1° N, 97.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 97.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Original description indicates it is likely Aftonian in age
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gravel
• gravel pit
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: O. P. Hay. 1923. Characteristics of sundry fossil vertebrates. Pan-American Geologist 39:101-120 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190387: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 07.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
Equus semiplicatus Cope 1893 horse | |
"Mylodon harlani" = Paramylodon harlani
"Mylodon harlani" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi
"Elephas columbi" = Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
Reptilia | |
Testudo francisi n. sp.
Testudo francisi n. sp. Hay 1923 turtle |