Where: Lipscomb County, Texas (36.1° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 98.4° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 15: Early 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 95-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18308: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922 gomphothere | |
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros | |
Hippidion sp. Owen 1869 horse described by MacFadden and Skinner 1979; said to be Pliohippus or Dinohippus by Alberdi and Prado 1992, but maintained by MacFadden 1997
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Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |
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Epicyon saevus Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog |