Also known as Dilli Place; Rizzey Ranch; Turkey Creek
Where: Donley County, Texas (35.0° N, 100.8° W: paleocoordinates 35.5° N, 98.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Clarendon Beds Formation, Clarendonian (12.5 - 9.4 Ma)
Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; concretionary, gray, calcareous claystone and coarse-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
Collected by Will Chamberlain, Works Progress Administration in 1936
• reposited in the West Texas State Teachers College collection
Primary reference: C. S. Johnston. 1938. The skull of Nannippus gratus (Leidy) from the Lower Pliocene of Texas. American Midland Naturalist 19(1):245-248 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 18347: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.08.1992, edited by Jonathan Marcot
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pseudhipparion hessei7, Protohippus supremus2, Calippus placidus3, Calippus martini3, Calippus regulus3, Pliohippus fossulatus3, Pliohippus pernix6
Pliohippus fossulatus3 Cope 1893 horse pers. commun.: type; listed by Schultz 1990c under "P. pernix"; type loc. is "Whitfish Creek, 2 mi. S Allan reed"
Pliohippus pernix6 Marsh 1874 horse supposedly includes type of P. pachyops (but see Forsten 1991, Kelly 1995, 1998)
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