Carter Quarry ( of the United States)
Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.7° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 100.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Blanco Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest. 1975. Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas. Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University 30:1-52 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 20032: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• NISP 66 plus as many as 78 (55?)
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Glyptotherium texanum Osborn 1903 glyptodon | |
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Baiomys sp. True 1894 pygmy mouse
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Peromyscus kansasensis Hibbard 1941 deer mouse | |
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Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
Paenemarmota barbouri Hibbard and Schultz 1948 squirrel | |
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Geomyidae indet. Bonaparte 1845 pocket gopher | |
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Perognathus cf. pearlettensis Hibbard 1941 pocket mouse
Perognathus cf. rexroadensis Hibbard 1950 pocket mouse | |
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Borophagus diversidens Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog | |
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Spilogale rexroadi Hibbard 1941 skunk | |
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse plus some of 35 teeth from three quarries
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Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
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Gigantocamelus spatulus Cope 1893 camel | |
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Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary plus probably most of the 43 others whose provenance is not indicated
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"Hesperoscalops blancoensis" = Scalopus blancoensis
"Hesperoscalops blancoensis" = Scalopus blancoensis Dalquest 1975 mole | |