Also known as Evans and Meade Locality 4; UCMP V-3721; Harold Ranch; Harrell Ranch
Where: Randall County, Texas (34.9° N, 101.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 101.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)
• "The fossil bearing beds are... approximately thirty feet thick" (Stirton and Christian 1940)
•two fossiliferous levels through about 6 m of section, but mostly from UCMP V-3721
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: "channel"; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. S. Johnston
• Panhandle Plains Historical Museum collection
Primary reference: C. S. Johnston and D. E. Savage. 1955. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20033: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot and Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Glyptotherium cf. texanum Osborn 1903 glyptodon | |
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Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903 edentate | |
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Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Canis lepophagus n. sp. Johnston 1938 canine | |
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Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
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Nannippus peninsulatus, "Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
Nannippus peninsulatus Cope 1885 hipparionine horse
"Equus simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse may include presumably spurious identifications "Equus cf. occidentalis" and "Astrohippus"
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Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Tetrameryx sp. Lull 1921 pronghorn | |
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary | |
Talpidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 mole | |
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Reptilia | |
"Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) johnstoni n. sp." = Hesperotestudo turgida3, "Bysmachelys canyonensis" = Gopherus hexagonatus7
"Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) johnstoni n. sp." = Hesperotestudo turgida3 Cope 1892 turtle "Testudo rugosa" (nomen nudum) of C. S. Johnston's Ph.D. thesis
"Bysmachelys canyonensis" = Gopherus hexagonatus7 Cope 1893 gopher tortoise "an immature specimen of the large turtles which are found in the Cita Canyon beds" (i.e., canyonensis)
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Aves | |
Meleagris leopoldi n. sp.10
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