Also known as TMM 43067
Where: Travis County, Texas (30.3° N, 98.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "The bones were encountered at a depth of eighteen feet" and there are radiocarbon dates on "organic material from the clay immediately surrounding the bones" of "17 220 +/- 1870"; "12 170 +/- 3060"; and "15 970 +/- 860"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; green claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by E. Lundelius, A. Briggs, B. Bryant in 1985
Collection methods: bulk, salvage, quarrying, sieve,
• deposit was discovered during "excavations connected with the construction of the Temple-Inland Building" and "small bones were recovered by wet sieving matrix from area B using 1 mm screen"
Primary reference: E. L., J.r. Lundelius. 1992. The Avenue Local Fauna, Late Pleistocene vertebrates from terrace deposits at Austin, Texas. Annales Zoologici Fennici 28:329-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93143: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth | |
"Glossotherium harlani" = Paramylodon harlani
"Glossotherium harlani" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Geomys cf. bursarius Shaw 1800 plains pocket gopher | |
Microtus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Ondatra zibethicus, Synaptomys cooperi, Peromyscus sp., Reithrodontomys sp., Onychomys leucogaster, Neotoma sp.
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Onychomys leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
Spilogale sp. Gray 1865 skunk | |
Reptilia | |
Emydidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 turtle | |
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Amphibia | |
Rana cf. catesbiana frog | |
Urodela indet. salamander | |
Actinopteri | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar |