Also known as P-180

Where: Randall County, Texas (35.1° N, 101.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 101.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• a "portion of the mollusks" closely associated with and even found inside the skull "yielded a date of 10,800 +/- 835 years B.P."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - small; unlithified, gray, blue, carbonaceous claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by J. Mathews, J. T. Hughes in 1965

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)

• Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum collection

•"the skull was found buried upside down [and eroding out by Mathews]... about one foot above the level of the creek" and was excavated afterwards by Hughes

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz and E. P. Cheatum. 1970. Bison occidentalis and associated invertebrates from the late Wisconsin of Randall County, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 44(5):836-850 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93554: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 23.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)