Also known as Equus scotti (Horse) Quarry; Evans and Meade Locality 6 (in part); Sloth-Camel (Mylodon-Camel) Quarry, TMM 31205
Where: Briscoe County, Texas (34.5° N, 101.4° W: paleocoordinates 34.5° N, 101.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tule Formation, Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• about 5m below Lava Creek B (=Pearlette Type O) Ash, dated at 0.60 (= 0.62) +/- 0.014 Ma (KA on sanidine) by Naeser et al. 1973
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by WPA in 1941; reposited in the TMM
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: E. D. Cope. 1893. A preliminary report on the vertebrate paleontology of the Llano Estacado. Fourth Annual Report of the Geological Survey of Texas 1892:11-136 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20498: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993, edited by Evangelos Vlachos
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•originally described by Troxell 1915a; field work reported by Gidley 1903
•"Glyptotherium arizonae" is listed by Kurten and Anderson 1980: probably = "Glyptodon"; but omitted by Schultz 1986 and Dalquest and Schultz 1992
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Testudo laticaudata n. sp., Testudo hexagonata n. sp.
Testudo laticaudata n. sp. Cope 1893 turtle TMM 41412-2 (holotype), a right epiplastron and xiphiplastron (Cope 1893, pl. 22; Hay 1908, figs. 623–624)
Testudo hexagonata n. sp. Cope 1893 turtle TMM 30967-1817 (holotype), shell fragments (Hay 1908, figs. 625–626; Auffenberg 1962a, figs. 1–2).
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Mammalia | |
"Elephas primigenius" = Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach 1799 wooly mammoth | |
"Stegomastodon barbouri" = Morrillia barbouri3
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Equus sp.1, Equus excelsus, "Equus scotti n. sp." = Equus mexicanus3, "Equus major" = Equus complicatus, Equus calobatus n. sp.3, "Equus tau" = Plesippus simplicidens
Equus excelsus Leidy 1858 horse
"Equus scotti n. sp." = Equus mexicanus3 Hibbard 1955 horse from "head of Rock Creek" also at Equus scotti Quarry: Troxell 1915a
"Equus major" = Equus complicatus Leidy 1858 horse
Equus calobatus n. sp.3 Troxell 1915 horse at Sloth-Camel Quarry, see Troxell 1915a; see also Hibbard 1970c
"Equus tau" = Plesippus simplicidens Cope 1892 horse | |
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Hayoceros falkenbachi2 Frick 1937 pronghorn "Hayoceros sp. or Tetrameryx" of Schultz 1986; "Texoceros shuleri" of Frick 1937
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"? Preptoceras mayfieldi n. sp." = Soergelia mayfieldi3
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"Camelops sulcatus n. sp." = Camelops hesternus3, "Holomeniscus sulcatus" = Camelops hesternus, "Tanupolama macrocephala" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala3, "Holomeniscus macrocephalus" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala
"Camelops sulcatus n. sp." = Camelops hesternus3 Leidy 1873 camel H & D list "C. hesternus", no justification
"Holomeniscus sulcatus" = Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel
"Holomeniscus macrocephalus" = Hemiauchenia macrocephala Cope 1893 camel | |
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"Paramylodon harlani" = Paramylodon harlani3 Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth at Mylodon-Camel Quarry: Troxell 1915a
"Mylodon ? sodalis" = Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth |