Low Quarry ( of the United States)

Where: Crosby County, Texas (33.7° N, 101.1° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 100.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest. 1975. Vertebrate Fossils From the Blanco Local Fauna of Texas. Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University 30:1-52 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details

PaleoDB collection 20030: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• NISP 160
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon mirificus Leidy 1858 gomphothere
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus bicalcaratus Cope 1893 peccary
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex taylori Hibbard 1937 long-tailed shrew
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
"Hesperoscalops blancoensis" = Scalopus blancoensis
"Hesperoscalops blancoensis" = Scalopus blancoensis Dalquest 1975 mole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Pewelagus dawsonae2 White 1984 rabbit
Leporinae indet.1 Trouessart 1880 rabbit
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Prodipodomys centralis Hibbard 1941 rodent
Perognathus cf. rexroadensis Hibbard 1950 pocket mouse
Perognathus cf. pearlettensis Hibbard 1941 pocket mouse
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma cf. quadriplicata Hibbard 1941 pack rat
Peromyscus kansasensis Hibbard 1941 deer mouse
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
"Sigmodon medius" = Sigmodon minor Gidley 1922 cotton rat