Burnett Quarry (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Knox County, Texas (33.8° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 99.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Seymour Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and R. M. Carpenter. 1988. Early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) mammals from the Seymour Formation, Knox and Baylor Counties, Texas, exclusive of Camelidae. Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University 124 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details

PaleoDB collection 20164: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

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Taxonomic list

• part of the Gilliland L.F. (see), but a different (post- 1977) collection than that of Hibbard and Dalquest 1966
Vulpes "macrotis" Anderson 1984: "Burnet"; not clear if this is Gilliland or Burnett Quarry
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus scotti" = Equus mexicanus
"Equus scotti" = Equus mexicanus Hibbard 1955 horse
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Tetrameryx knoxensis Hibbard and Dalquest 1960 pronghorn
"T. seymourensis" (lapsus calami) is listed in the discussion, but T. knoxensis is described
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 American badger
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Onychomys pedroensis Gidley 1922 grasshopper mouse
Sigmodon cf. curtisi Gidley 1922 cotton rat
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Peromyscus cragini Hibbard 1944 deer mouse
"Pitymys llanensis" = Microtus llanensis Hibbard 1944 vole
Microtus paroperarius Hibbard 1944 vole
Proneofiber guildayi n. sp. Hibbard and Dalquest 1973 mouse
see Hibbard and Dalquest 1973
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys tobinensis Hibbard 1944 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathinae indet.1 Coues 1875 rodent
Dipodomys pattersoni n. sp. Dalquest and Carpenter 1986 kangaroo rat
see Dalquest and Carpenter 1986
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
Cynomys sp.2 Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus cf. floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
 Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903 glyptodon
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
a bat