Chalk Gap Draw: Chadronian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cylindrodontidae
Pseudocylindrodon texanus n. sp. Wood 1974
see Wood 1974
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Gustafson 1986
"Felidae ? or Nimravidae ?"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Mesohippus texanus McGrew 1971
McGrew 1971
apparently overlooked by Wilson 1977b
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Brontotheriidae
Menodus bakeri Stovall 1948
    = Menops bakeri Stovall 1948
Alroy 2002
see Wilson 1977a
Mammalia - Perissodactyla
Schizotheriodes jackwilsoni Schiebout 1977
(3 measurements)
    = Toxotherium hunteri Wood 1961
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Entelodontidae
Archaeotherium cf. mortoni Leidy 1850
see Wilson 1971b
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Merycoidodon dunagani Wilson 1971
recombined as Aclistomycter dunagani
Mammalia - Oromerycidae
Eotylopus cf. reedi Matthew 1910
described by Wilson 1974
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Camaenidae
Pleurodonte (Pleurodonte) wilsoni n. sp. Roth 1984
Roth 1984 9 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Presidio
Coordinates: 29.9° North, 104.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.3° North, 96.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Chadronian
Age range of interval:37.00000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Vieja Local bed:7
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Museum repositories:TMM
Taxonomic list comments:county given by Gustafson 1986b
Metadata
Also known as:TMM 40840; Little Egypt L.F. in part
Database number:16931
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:41
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3665. J. A. Wilson. 1977. Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas. Part I: Vieja Area. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 25:1-42 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
1758 E. P. Gustafson. 1986. Carnivorous mammals of the Late Eocene and Early Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas. Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 33:1-66 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
2524 P. O. McGrew. 1971. Epihippus from the Vieja Group, Trans-Pecos Texas. Pearce-Sellards Series 18 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
67996 B. Roth. 1984. Lysinoe (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and other land snails from Eocene-Oligocene of Trans-Pecos Texas, and their paleoclimatic significance. The Veliger 27(2):200-218 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]