Nueces River (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Nueces County, Texas (27.9° N, 97.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° N, 97.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: permineralized
Primary reference: J. C. Sagebiel. 2022. Xenarthrans from the Nueces River Fauna, Upper Pleistocene of Nueces County, Texas. New Mexico Museum of Natural History Bulletin 88:225-231 [P. Holroyd/K. Magoulick]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 230753: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Katherine Magoulick on 17.07.2023
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
"Glyptotherium cf. floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum
"Glyptotherium cf. floridanum" = Glyptotherium cylindricum Brown 1912 Florida glyptodont | |
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Holmesina septentrionalis Leidy 1889 edentate | |
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Paramylodon harlani Owen 1840 Harlan's ground sloth | |
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair 1905 Shasta ground sloth | |
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Eremotherium laurillardi Lund 1842 edentate | |
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Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth | |
Canis latrans, "Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf | |
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Arctodus simus Cope 1879 giant short-faced bear | |
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"cf. Homotherium serum" = Homotherium latidens Owen 1846 scimitar toothed cat
Smilodon fatalis Leidy 1868 saber-toothed cat | |
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Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880 camel
Palaeolama mirifa camel
Camelops hesternus Leidy 1873 camel | |
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Bison latifrons Harlan 1825 bison
Bison antiquus Leidy 1852 bison | |
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Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer | |
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Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
"Tapirus excelsus" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus excelsus" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir | |
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Mammut sp. Blumenbach 1799 mastodon | |
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Mammuthus columbi Falconer 1857 Columbian mammoth | |
| Reptilia | |
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Terrapene sp. Merrem 1820 box turtle
Trachemys scripta Schoepff 1792 slider | |
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Hesperotestudo sp. Williams 1950 turtle
Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise | |
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Apalone spinifera LeSueur 1827 spiny softshell turtle | |
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Alligator mississippiensis Daudin 1801 American alligator | |