Red Light (TMM 40856) ( of the United States)

Where: Hudspeth County, Texas (31.5° N, 105.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.6° N, 104.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Love Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Reposited in the TMM

Primary reference: W. A. Akersten. 1972. Red Light Local Fauna (Blancan) Of The Love Formation, Southeastern Hudspeth County, Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 20:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 20052: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp.
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825 edentate
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus cumminsii" = Equus (Asinus) cumminsi, "Equus aff. scotti" = Equus mexicanus, "Equus cf. simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens
"Equus cumminsii" = Equus (Asinus) cumminsi Cope 1893 horse
"Equus aff. scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
"Equus cf. simplicidens" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
? Odocoileus sp.
? Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia cf. macrocephala, Camelops sp.
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus
Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet., Homotherium sp.
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
"either F. lacustris or F. rexroadensis" of Werdelin 1985; "F. cf. rexroadensis"
Homotherium sp. Fabrini 1890 cat
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet.
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Cratogeomys sp.
Cratogeomys sp. Merriam 1895 pocket gopher