PBDB Collection

Garvin Gully: Hemingfordian, Texas

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Reptilia

	Alligator sp. Daudin 1809
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae

	Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811		1 specimen
	= Geochelone williamsi n. sp. Auffenberg 1964	Auffenberg 1964
	recombined as Hesperotestudo williamsi
	TMM 31084-11 (holotype), a shell (Auffenberg 1964b, figs. 1, 2)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Amphicyonidae

	Amphicyon sp. Lartet 1836	Hesse 1943
	= Amphicyon longiramus White 1942	Wilson 1960
	from Grimes Co. TAM locality
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae

	Tephrocyon scitulus n. sp. Hay 1924	Hesse 1943
	recombined as Osbornodon scitulus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae

	Anchitherium navasotae (Hay 1924)	Forsten 1975
	TMM 31084 (1 measurement)

	Miohippus navasotae n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	recombined as Anchitherium navasotae

	Anchitherium australis (Leidy 1873)	Hesse 1943
	nomen dubium belonging to Anchitheridae

	Parahippus leonensis Sellards 1916	Hesse 1943
	listed by Forsten 1975 at TMM 31084 (1 measurement)

	Merychippus socius n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Parahippus leonensis

	Merychippus vellicans n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Parahippus leonensis

	Archaeohippus blackbergi (Hay 1924)	Hesse 1943
	listed by Forsten 1975 at TMM 31084 (1 measurement)

	Miohippus blackbergi n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	recombined as Archaeohippus blackbergi

	Parahippus sp. (Leidy 1858)
	= Parahippus minutalis n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Archaeohippus blackbergi
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae

	Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821	Hesse 1943
	= Menoceras barbouri Wood 1964	Prothero 2005
Mammalia - Anthracotheriidae

	Arretotherium acridens Douglass 1902	Albright 1999
	TMM 31084
Mammalia - Tayassuidae

	Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897	Hesse 1943
	= Cynorca sociale Marsh 1875	Woodburne 1969
	recombined as Marshochoerus socialis
	from Garvin Farm, TMM 31084; status questioned by Albright 1999a
Mammalia - Camelidae

	Procamelus benedentatus n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	recombined as Oxydactylus benedentatus

	Protolabis francisi n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Oxydactylus benedentatus

	Procamelus concerptus n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Oxydactylus benedentatus
	listed as "Garvin Farm" in Hay 1924

	Australocamelus orarius n. sp. Patton 1969	Patton 1969
	TAM locality (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Protoceratidae

	Dromomeryx texanus n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	recombined as Prosynthetoceras texanus
	listed as "Garvin Farm" in Hay 1924

	Dromomeryx ? angustidens Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Prosynthetoceras texanus
	listed as "Garvin Farm" in Hay 1924

	Merycodus grandis n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
	synonym of Prosynthetoceras texanus
	listed as "Garvin Farm" in Hay 1924
Mammalia - Moschidae

	Blastomerycinae indet. Frick 1937	Patton 1969
	includes type of "? Longirostromeryx vigoratus" from TAM locality; listed as "Blastomeryx vigoratus" by Webb 1998a

	Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877
	= Blastomeryx vigoratus n. sp. Hay 1924	Hay 1924
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae

	Castoridae indet. Gray 1821	Hesse 1943
	"Paleocastor"
see common names

Geography

Country:	United States	State/province:	Texas	County:	Grimes
Coordinates:	30.3° North, 95.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:	30.9° North, 92.1° West
Basis of coordinate:	based on political unit
Geographic resolution:	small collection

Time

Period:	Neogene	Epoch:	Miocene
Stage:	Burdigalian	10 m.y. bin:	Cenozoic 5
*Period:	Tertiary
Key time interval:	Hemingfordian
Age range of interval:	18.50000 - 16.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Stratigraphy

Formation:	Oakville	Member:	Lower Oakville
Local section:	Flmng	Local bed:	2
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,mesofossils

Collection methods and comments

Collection methods:	mechanical,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:	TMM
Taxonomic list comments:placed high in section by Tedford et al. 1987 unnumbered TAMU Nothokemas floridanus specimen of Patton 1969a could be from another locality in the "Garvin Gully" fauna

Metadata

Also known as:	TMM 31084; TAM 20; Garvin Farm, WPA
Database number:	18626
Authorizer:	J. Alroy, M. Carrano, J. Marcot, E. Vlachos	Enterer:	J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, J. Marcot, M. Carrano
Modifier:	M. Carrano	Research group:	vertebrate
Created:	1993-09-27 00:00:00	Last modified:	2020-01-17 16:16:03
Access level:	the public	Released:	1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:	CC BY

Reference information

Primary reference:

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]

Secondary references:

937	5% 600	L. B. Albright. 1999. Ungulates of the Toledo Bend local fauna (late Arikareean, early Miocene), Texas Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, Biological Sciences 42(1):1-80 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Head]
64768		W. Auffenberg. 1964. A new fossil tortoise from the Texas Miocene, with remarks on the probable geologic history of tortoises in eastern U.S. Pearce-Sellards Series 3(3):3-10 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
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]
51367		O. P. Hay. 1924. Description of some fossil vertebrates from the Upper Miocene of Texas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 37:1-18 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
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]
2737		T. H. Patton. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene Artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 14(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
51726		D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
3659		J. A. Wilson. 1960. Miocene carnivores, Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):983-1000 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3752	ETE	M. O. Woodburne. 1969. Systematics, biogeography, and evolution of Cynorca and Dyseohyus (Tayassuidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 141(2):273-355 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]