Christian Ranch: Late/Upper Hemphillian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
? Rhynchotherium sp. Falconer 1868
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Neohipparion cf. eurystyle (Cope 1893)
Dinohippus cf. mexicanus (Lance 1950)
original and current combination Pliohippus (Pliohippus) mexicanus
Astrohippus cf. stockii (Lance 1950)
original and current combination Pliohippus (Astrohippus) stockii
Mammalia - Palaeomerycidae
Pediomeryx hemphillensis Stirton 1936
Janis and Manning 1998
"Christian Pit 2" (thought to be Christian Ranch)
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
? Hexobelomeryx sp. Furlong 1941
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Camelidae
Hemiauchenia sp. Gervais and Ameghino 1880
? Megatylopus sp. (Matthew and Cook 1909)
original and current combination Pliauchenia (Megatylopus)
see also Harrison 1985
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felidae indet. Gray 1821
"? Machairodont"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Borophagus hilli (Johnston 1939)
Wang et al. 1999
Christian Place Quarry; "B. sp." Richey 1979; "Osteoborus sp."
Caninae indet. Gill 1872
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mephitinae indet. Bonaparte 1845
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Armstrong
Coordinates: 35.0° North, 101.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 99.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Miocene
Key time interval:Late/Upper Hemphillian
Age range of interval:9.40000 - 4.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Clare Local bed:4
Local order:bottom to top
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Richey 1979 is uncertain that F:AM Christian Place and UCMP Christian Ranch are exactly the same locality, but Schultz implies that they are
Metadata
Also known as:UCMP V-5328; Christian Place Quarry
Database number:18093
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2011-09-06 21:06:27
Access level:the public Released:1992-08-05 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6209. G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 16: Late Hemphillian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 104-111 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2014 C. M. Janis and E. Manning. 1998. Dromomerycidae. In C. M. Janis, K. M. Scott, and L. L. Jacobs (eds.), Evolution of Tertiary mammals of North America 477-490 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3558 X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]