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

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Taxonomic list

• lower unit: Wilson 1977b fig. 6
Wilson 1977b illustrates Capote Creek as a tributary of the Rio Grande in Presidio County
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Plesiocolopirus cf. hancocki Radinsky 1963 tapir
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
? Triplopus sp. Cope 1880 odd-toed ungulate