Noble Ranch (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Raymond Farr Ranch; UCMP V-69145

Where: Donley County, Texas (35.0° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 98.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Ogallala Group, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 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 18283: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• not the same as Noble Farm (see)
said by Wang et al. 1999 to be in Moore County
Mammalia
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras major2 Hatcher 1894 rhinoceros
"Farr place, Bluff on Turkey Creek"
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Tayassuinae indet.1 Palmer 1897 peccary
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Leptarctus sp. Leidy 1856 mustelid carnivore
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Cynarctus fortidens n. sp." = Cynarctus crucidens, "Tomarctus euthos" = Paratomarctus euthos, Aelurodon taxoides
"Cynarctus fortidens n. sp." = Cynarctus crucidens Barbour and Cook 1914 bone-crushing dog
see also Wang et al. 1999
"Tomarctus euthos" = Paratomarctus euthos McGrew 1935 bone-crushing dog
not discussed by Wang et al. 1999
Aelurodon taxoides Hatcher 1894 bone-crushing dog
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
 Rodentia - Mylagaulidae
Mylagaulidae indet.1 Cope 1881 rodent