Also known as Wood Pit; Elam Pit; Milton Pit; Pemberton Hill

Where: Dallas County, Texas (32.7° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• from the "second alluvial terrace" in the "Lower Shuler"

•"in excess of 37,000 year in age" and "falls within an old valley fill believed to have formed between 50,000 and 25,000 B.P."; also called "early Rancholabrean" meaning "Illinoian to the beginning of the classic Wisconsin" but the latter is consider to start "by about 28,000 B.P."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; unlithified gravel

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by B. H. Slaughter, B. R. Hoover, R. Pickerel, R. Ritchie, F. Schneider in 1962

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying,

• Southern Methodist University collection

Primary reference: B. H. Slaughter. 1966. The Moore Pit local fauna; Pleistocene of Texas. Journal of Paleontology 40(1):78-91 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93103: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 04.01.2010

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