Patterson Ranch (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Knox County, Texas (33.8° N, 99.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.8° N, 99.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and G. E. Schultz. 1992. Ice Age mammals of northwestern Texas 1-309 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

PaleoDB collection 20451: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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Taxonomic list

• immediately underlies Lava Creek B volcanic ash; stratigraphically below Vera L.F. (see also Rock Creek)
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Spermophilus cf. elegans" = Urocitellus elegans
"Spermophilus cf. elegans" = Urocitellus elegans Kennicott 1863 Wyoming ground squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
"Pedomys llanensis" = Microtus llanensis Hibbard 1944 vole
Ondatra annectens Brown 1908 muskrat
Reithrodontomys moorei Hibbard 1944 harvest mouse
Onychomys pedroensis Gidley 1922 grasshopper mouse
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
 Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Perognathinae indet. Coues 1875 rodent
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew
 Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat
"cat"; could be Panthera