Meade's Quarry 9, Crawfish Ranch ( of the United States)

Also known as TMM 31179, WPA Site 9

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.8° N, 101.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 100.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blanco Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 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 20026: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
  -
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758 bird
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus diversidens3 Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
 Carnivora - Felidae
Miracinonyx sp.1 Adams 1979 American cheetah
metapodials
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens3
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens3 Cope 1892 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus3 Cope 1893 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Blancocamelus meadei2 Dalquest 1975 camel
Gigantocamelus spatulus3 Cope 1893 camel