Airstrip (TMM 40502) (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: E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 16887: 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
 Creodonta - Hyaenodontidae
Hyaenodon crucians Leidy 1853 creodont