Red Hill (Miocene of the United States)
Also known as Pleasant Hill; TAM 48; TMM 40141
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 18655: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.07.1994
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• within 100 feet zone below contact with overlying Willis Fm.
Show authors, comments, and common names
| Mammalia | |
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Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran | |
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Protohippus vetus Quinn 1955 horse | |
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Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866 pronghorn | |
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Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel | |