Goodrich Site 1 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Smith Ranch; TMM 31183, WPA

Where: Polk County, Texas (30.6° N, 94.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 91.9° 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 18628: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "99 catalogued specimens"
Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Aelurodon ferox5 Leidy 1858 bone-crushing dog
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Hipparionini indet.2 Quinn 1955 hipparionine horse
Protohippus perditus3 Leidy 1858 horse
Calippus proplacidus3 Osborn 1918 horse
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
? Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Aepycamelus sp.1 Macdonald 1956 camel
 Artiodactyla - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras francisi4 Frick 1937 protoceratid
"P. sp.?"
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
"Longirostromeryx blicki" = Longirostromeryx wellsi4
"Longirostromeryx blicki" = Longirostromeryx wellsi4 Matthew 1904 musk deer