Cold Spring, San Jacinto site 2 (Miocene of the United States)

Also known as WPA, Work Project No. 17060, Coldspring, TMM 31191

Where: San Jacinto County, Texas (30.6° N, 95.1° W: paleocoordinates 31.1° N, 92.1° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Fleming Formation, Barstovian (16.3 - 12.5 Ma)

• 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 (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 207493: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 13.01.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Crocodylia - Alligatoridae
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809 alligator
Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium
"Trilophodon sp." = Gomphotherium Burmeister 1837 gomphothere
 Placentalia -
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821 carnivoran
 Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus sp. Cope 1873 bone-crushing dog
 Artiodactyla - Camelidae
Camelidae indet., "Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821 camel
"Alticamelus sp." = Aepycamelus Macdonald 1956 camel
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
 Artiodactyla - Moschidae
Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877 musk deer
 Artiodactyla - Palaeomerycidae
Palaeomerycidae indet. Lydekker 1883 ruminant
 Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845 rhinoceros
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Calippus sp. Matthew and Stirton 1930 horse
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874 horse
Nannippus sp. Matthew 1926 hipparionine horse
Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856 horse