Mouth of Capote Creek (Eocene of the United States)
Also known as TMM 42258
Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Colmena Tuff Formation, Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: J. A. Wilson and J. A. Schiebout. 1984. Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Ceratomorpha less Amynodontidae. Pearce-Sellards Series 39:1-47 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
PaleoDB collection 16605: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• lower unit: Wilson 1977b fig. 6
Wilson 1977b illustrates Capote Creek as a tributary of the Rio Grande in Presidio County
Wilson 1977b illustrates Capote Creek as a tributary of the Rio Grande in Presidio County
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Mammalia | |
Plesiocolopirus cf. hancocki Radinsky 1963 tapir | |
? Triplopus sp. Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate |