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 | |
Stegomastodon sp. Pohlig 1912 gomphothere | |
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison | |
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"Megatylopus spatula" = Gigantocamelus spatulus2
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