Currie Ranch (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as UCMP V-5326

Where: Randall County, Texas (35.0° N, 101.9° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 100.2° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 16: Late Hemphillian 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 104-111 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18110: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Rhynchotherium sp. Falconer 1868 gomphothere
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Dinohippus cf. mexicanus Lance 1950 horse
Astrohippus cf. stockii Lance 1950 horse
Neohipparion cf. eurystyle Cope 1893 hipparionine horse
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
? Megatylopus sp. Matthew and Cook 1909 camel
see also Harrison 1985
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus sp. Cope 1892 bone-crushing dog