Cole Highway Pit (Miocene of the United States)

Where: Lipscomb County, Texas (36.1° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 97.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Clarendonian (13.6 - 10.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 14: The Clarendonian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 83-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18098: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet. Cope 1881 rodent
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops megalodus2 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
Teleoceras major2 Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821 horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Cranioceras sp.1 Matthew 1918 ruminant
Pediomeryx (Yumaceras) also may be present
 Carnivora - Canidae
Cynarctus crucidens3 Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
"Highway Pit, 0.75 mi north of Lipscomb"
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere