Foster Estate, San Jacinto County Site 6: Miocene, Texas
collected by WPA 1941
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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? Castoridae indet.
Gray 1821
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= ? Amblycastor sp.
Matthew 1918
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
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= Amblycastor sp.
Matthew 1918
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Hesse 1943 | |||||||||
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= Anchitheriomys sp.
Roger 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Protohippus sp.
Leidy 1858
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Hesse 1943 | |||||||||
| reassigned as Merychippus (Protohippus) | ||||||||||
| "Merychippus" vetus and "M. circulus" = P. perditus both reported by Forsten 1975; not clear which i.d. is valid | ||||||||||
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Hipparionini indet.
Quinn 1955
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Hesse 1943 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | San Jacinto |
| Coordinates: | 30.7° North, 95.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° North, 92.4° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Miocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Local section: | Flmng | Local bed: | 4 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
| Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1941 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Point Blank fauna; TMM 31244; WPA, Work Project No. 17060 | ||
| Database number: | 18625 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-01-17 16:19:04 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 71468. | Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1504 | A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 1833 | C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
| 71494 | E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |