Airstrip (TMM 40501) (Eocene of the United States)

Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.3° N, 96.7° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Capote Mountain Tuff Formation, Chadronian (37.2 - 33.9 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 16886: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.1994

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Taxonomic list

• 570 ft. above the Bracks Rhyolite
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Hyracodontidae
Hyracodon petersoni Wood 1926 odd-toed ungulate
see also Prothero 1996e