Couch Formation (Upper Member): Clarendonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Gomphotheriidae indet. Hay 1922
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
cf. Dinohippus sp. Quinn 1955
Pliohippus cf. pernix Marsh 1874
Pseudhipparion cf. hessei Webb and Hulbert 1986
Cormohipparion occidentale (Leidy 1856)
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Camelidae
Protolabis coartatus (Stirton 1929)
Procamelus grandis Gregory 1939
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ustatochoerus profectus (Matthew and Cook 1909)
    = Merychyus novomexicanus Frick 1929
Alroy 2002
invalid subgroup of Ustatochoerus medius
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Hypolagus fontinalis Dawson 1958
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Crosby and Lubbock
Coordinates: 33.7° North, 101.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:34.2° North, 99.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:13.60000 - 10.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Couch Local bed:2
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Database number:18104
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1992-08-05 00:00:00 Last modified:2009-12-20 13:08:20
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3715. D. A. Winkler. 1990. Sedimentary Facies and Biochronology of the Upper Tertiary Ogallala Group, Blanco and Yellow House Canyons, Texas Panhandle. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Geologic Framework and Regional Hydrology: Upper Cenozoic Blackwater Draw and Ogallala Formations, Great Plains 39-55 [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]