Cold Spring, San Jacinto site 3 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Anderson Site 2; Jim Donahoe or Donohoe Farm; A. D. Donohoe Pit; TMM 31219; TAM 38 (in part), WPA, Work Project No. 17060

Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.6° N, 95.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 92.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fleming Formation, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18619: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• called "Trinity River local fauna" by Slaughter 1981
early "Cold Springs area" F:AM collections of Riley are from this locality
Anderson Site 2 is "2.4 km (1.5 miles) north of Coldspring": Schiebout and Ting 1998
at top of Fleming section and above Point Blank localities
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Mammalia
 Theriamorpha -
Eutheria indet.8 eutherian
an insectivore or a chiropteran; Anderson Site 2
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Gomphotherium obscurum10 Leidy 1869 mastodon
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus gunteri2 Simpson 1930 horse
"Merychippus perditus" = Protohippus perditus3 Leidy 1858 horse
confirmed by Hulbert 1988a
Calippus proplacidus4 Osborn 1918 horse
Calippus circulus4 Quinn 1955 horse
Hipparionini indet.2 Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras meridianum6 Leidy 1865 rhinoceros
"Aphelops (probably A. meridianus)"; also at Donohoe Pit
Peraceras hessei6 Prothero and Manning 1987 rhinoceros
Aphelops megalodus7 Cope 1873 rhinoceros
only specimens discussed by Prothero and Manning 1987 are from F:AM localities 2 mi. NE and 3 mi N of Cold Spring
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras francisi n. sp.3 Frick 1937 protoceratid
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomerycinae indet.1 Frick 1937 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet., "Floridatragulus hesperus" = Floridatragulus texanus5
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
"Floridatragulus hesperus" = Floridatragulus texanus5 Patton 1969 camel
 Artiodactyla - Merycoidodontidae
"Ticholeptus rileyi n. sp." = Ticholeptus zygomaticus3
"Ticholeptus rileyi n. sp." = Ticholeptus zygomaticus3 Cope 1878 oreodont
Riley specimen from "Cold Springs area"
 Carnivora - Canidae
Borophaginae indet.1 Simpson 1945 bone-crushing dog
 Placentalia -
Lagomorpha indet.3 Brandt 1885 placental
"Rodent (Lepus?)"
 Rodentia -
Texomys ritchiei n. sp.9 Slaughter 1981 rodent
TMM 31219
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Heteromyidae indet.8 Gray 1868 rodent
Anderson Site 2
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp.8 Wood 1936 mouse
Anderson Site 2
Reptilia
 Testudinata -
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator
 Crocodylia - Crocodylidae
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768 crocodile