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, Pliohippus pernix6, Pliohippus fossulatus3, Calippus placidus3, Calippus martini3, Calippus regulus3, Protohippus supremus2
Pliohippus pernix6 Marsh 1874 horse supposedly includes type of P. pachyops (but see Forsten 1991, Kelly 1995, 1998)
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"
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