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