Sam Houston (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as Cold Spring fauna; TMM 31191; TAM 38 (in part)
Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.5° N, 95.0° W: paleocoordinates 31.0° N, 92.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Fleming Formation, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 18637: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• stratigraphic equivalent of Cold Spring according to Hesse, but said to be "toward the top of the exposed section" and only .5 mile from Cold Spring; Tedford et al. 1987 indicate it is stratigraphically higher
"16 specimens"
"16 specimens"
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Prosynthetoceras sp. Frick 1937 protoceratid | |
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Camelidae indet., "Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus
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