Noble Farm (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as Cold Spring fauna; Barry Farm; TMM 40138; TAM 19

Where: Grimes County, Texas (30.3° N, 95.7° W: paleocoordinates 30.8° N, 92.7° 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 18650: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993, edited by Jonathan Marcot

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Taxonomic list

• above the Moulton Sandstone
"several dozen horse teeth"
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Gomphotherium sp. Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
"Trilophodon sp.?": probably includes "G. cimmaronis" of Schiebout 1997b from Ed Noble Farm, TMM 40773, near Navasota
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus gunteri2 Simpson 1930 horse
"Merychippus perditus" = Protohippus perditus 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 meridianum5 Leidy 1865 rhinoceros
Teleoceras medicornutum5 Osborn 1904 rhinoceros
Peraceras hessei5 Prothero and Manning 1987 rhinoceros
 Artiodactyla -
 Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
Procamelus leptognathus3 Cope 1893 camel
 Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus brevirostris6 Cope 1873 bone-crushing dog