Also known as Point Blank fauna; TMM 31190; Ella McMurray Farm, WPA, Work Project No. 17060
Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.7° N, 95.3° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 92.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• 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 class: macrofossils
Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
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 18627: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
stratigraphically beneath Cold Spring
"29 specimens"
Gnathostomata | |
Osteichthyes indet. bony fish | |
Mammalia | |
Edaphocyon pointblankensis n. sp.7
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Palaeomerycidae indet. Lydekker 1883 ruminant | |
Floridatragulus texanus4 Patton 1969 camel may include "Palaeomerycidae indet."; Hinderstein and Boyce 1977 list "Floridatragulus sp."
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Reptilia | |
Testudinata indet. turtle | |
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator | |
Actinopteri | |
Ameiurus sp. Rafinesque 1820 catfish | |
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843 gar | |
Angiospermae | |
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753 hackberry |