Buckner Ranch Locality, Site 1: Clarendonian, Texas
collected by WPA 1939–1940

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Tetralophodon sp. Falconer 1857
19 individuals
    = Gnathabelodon buckneri n. sp. Sellards 1940
Sellards 1940
recombined as Blancotherium buckneri
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
Anonymous 1939 1 specimen
2 carapace fragments
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
Sellards 1940
    = Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
Sellards 1941
    = Leptocyon vafer Leidy 1858
Wilson 1960
Leptocyon vafer (Leidy 1858)
May 2019
TMM 30896-241 partial dentary with p2-m2
Mammalia - Camelidae
Nothotylopus camptognathus Patton 1969
May 2019
TMM 30896-198 partial right dentary
Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
    = Procamelus occidentalis Leidy 1858
Patton 1969
in part
Alticamelus sp. Matthew 1901
    = Procamelus sp. Leidy 1858
Sellards 1940
    = Procamelus grandis Gregory 1939
Patton 1969
in part
Protolabis cf. yavapaiensis (Honey and Taylor 1978)
May 2019
TMM 30896-296 partial left dentary with p3 (roots only), p4, m1, m2, m3 (early eruption)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Prosthennops serus (Cope 1877)
Sellards 1940
    = Tayassuinae indet. Palmer 1897
Alroy 2002
Prosthennops sp. Matthew and Gidley 1904
TMM 30896-412 M1
    = Prosthennops xiphidonticus
May 2019
Mammalia
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Anonymous 1939 1 specimen
astragalus
    = Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
? Merycodus sp. Leidy 1854
    = Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Sellards 1940
    = Antilocaprinae indet. Gray 1866
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
1 specimen
astragalus
Mammalia - Gelocidae
Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877
Sellards 1940
(9 measurements)
    = Blastomeryx elegans Matthew and Cook 1909
Patton 1969
    = Pseudoceras skinneri Frick 1937
Webb 2008
Pseudoceras skinneri Frick 1937
May 2019
TMM 30896-326 partial right dentary with p3-m3, -496 partial dentary with p3-m3
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Teleoceras fossiger (Cope 1878)
Sellards 1940
    = Teleoceras sp. Hatcher 1894
Sellards 1941
    = Teleoceras cf. major Hatcher 1894
Prothero and Manning 1987
    = Teleoceras major Hatcher 1894
May 2019
TMM 30896-124 humerus, -152 right dentary with p3, p4, m1, and m2 unerupted, -337 p3, -654 atlas
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Pliohippus sp. Marsh 1874
Anonymous 1941
    = Hippotigris sellardsi n. sp. Quinn 1955
Sellards 1940
synonym of Protohippus supremus
Calippus anatinus n. sp. Quinn 1955
Sellards 1940
synonym of Calippus regulus
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Anonymous 1939 2 specimens
    = Equus laparensis n. sp. Quinn 1955
Sellards 1940
    = Calippus martini Hesse 1936
Hulbert 1988
Merychippus cf. francisi Hay 1924
Sellards 1940
    = Calippus placidus Leidy 1869
Hulbert 1988
Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)
confirmed by Hulbert 1988c: "N. cf. ingenuum" of Forsten 1975
Neohipparion sp. Gidley 1903
    = Neohipparion occidentale Leidy 1856
Sellards 1940
    = Hippotherium sp. Kaup 1832
Alroy 2002
repeated by Forsten 1975
Pseudhipparion curtivallum (Quinn 1955)
Webb and Hulbert 1986
Hipparion tehonense (Merriam 1916)
May 2019
recombined as Hipparion gratum tehonense
TMM 30896-537 M3, -629 P4, -630 M1/M2, -631 M1/M2
Neohipparion affine (Leidy 1869)
Hulbert 1987
Reptilia
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809
TMM 30896-280 partial skull, -335, -372 osteoderms, -357, -336 teeth
    = Alligator cf. mississippiensis Daudin 1801
May 2019
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Anonymous 1939
"birds"
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Hesperotestudo sp. (Williams 1950)
May 2019
TMM 30896-328 carapace
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Apalone sp. Rafinesque 1832
May 2019
TMM 30896-144 hyoplastron-hypoplastron, -377 costals, -635, -636 plastron fragments
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Siluridae
Ameiurus sp. Rafinesque 1820
Sellards 1941
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
Sellards 1941
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Bee
Coordinates: 28.6° North, 97.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.0° North, 95.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 5-6
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Clarendonian
Age range of interval:12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Goliad Member:Lapara
Local section:Flmng Local bed:10
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:WPA Collection dates:1939–1940
Taxonomic list comments:said to be near top of member
misidentified as Farish Ranch/Berclair by Prothero and Manning 1987
Metadata
Also known as:Lapara Creek fauna; TMM 30896, Work Project No. 12510
Database number:18611
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano, E. Vlachos Enterer:J. Alroy, E. Vlachos, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2020-01-17 16:07:48
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
71439. Anonymous. 1939. The first quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-22+ [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
71451 Anonymous. 1939. The third quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71437 Anonymous. 1939. The second quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30,1939 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-26 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71453 Anonymous. 1940. The fourth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-29 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71463 Anonymous. 1940. The fifth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-25 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71464 Anonymous. 1940. The sixth quarterly report covering the quarter ending September 30, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71466 Anonymous. 1940. The seventh quarterly report covering the quarter ending December 31, 1940 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-44 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71468 Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
71467 Anonymous. 1941. The eighth quarterly report covering the quarter ending March 31, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-47 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
1504 A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
38505% 23520R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1987. Late Neogene Neohipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the Gulf Coastal Plain of Florida and Texas. Journal of Paleontology 61(4):809-830 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]
1949 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
68632 S. R. May. 2019. The Lapara Creek Fauna: Early Clarendonian of south Texas, USA. Palaeontologia Electronica (22.1.15)1-129 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]
2737 T. H. Patton. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene Artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 14(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2807 D. R. Prothero and E. M. Manning. 1987. Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 61(2):388-423 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3098 E. H. Sellards. 1940. New Pliocene mastodon. Geological Society America Bulletin 51 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
71494 E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]
36064 S. D. Webb. 2008. Revision of the extinct Pseudoceratinae (Artiodactyla: Ruminantia: Gelocidae). Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 48(2):17-58 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
6227 S. D. Webb and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1986. Systematics and evolution of Pseudhipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Neogene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Great Plains. Contributions to Geology, the University of Wyoming, Special Paper 3:237-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3659 J. A. Wilson. 1960. Miocene carnivores, Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 34(5):983-1000 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]