Meade's Quarry 4, Mount Blanco ( of the United States)

Also known as TMM 31175, WPA, Site 4, Work Project No. 15995

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.8° N, 101.2° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 100.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blanco Formation, Blancan (4.9 - 1.8 Ma)

• 34 ft above contact with red clay

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM

Collection methods: quarrying, 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 20022: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.05.2002, edited by Matthew Carrano

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus1 Cope 1893 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
"Megatylopus spatula" = Gigantocamelus spatulus2
"Megatylopus spatula" = Gigantocamelus spatulus2 Cope 1893 camel
 Megatherioidea - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx leptostomus1 Cope 1893 edentate