Moscow: Barstovian, Texas
collected by WPA 1940
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
- Crocodilia
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Crocodilia indet.
Owen 1842
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Boidae
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Calamagras weigeli
Holman 1972
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Elaphe nebraskensis
Holman 1964
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
Neonatrix elongata
Holman 1973
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Sciuropterus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Hesse 1943 | |||||||||
= Petauristodon sp.
Engesser 1979
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Slaughter 1981 | |||||||||
Protospermophilus quatalensis
(Gazin 1930)
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Albright 1996 | |||||||||
"Moscow" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Amblycastor sp.
Matthew 1918
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= ? Anchitheriomys sp.
Roger 1885
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
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Texomys sp.
Slaughter 1981
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Slaughter 1981 | |||||||||
Jimomys labaughi
Wahlert 1976
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Albright 1996 | |||||||||
"Moscow" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Amphicyonidae
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Amphicyon sp.
Lartet 1836
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= Amphicyonidae indet.
Haeckel 1886
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Cynodesmus sp.
Scott 1893
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
"or Nothocyon" | ||||||||||
= Canidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras meridianum
(Leidy 1865)
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
Peraceras hessei
Prothero and Manning 1987
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus gunteri
Simpson 1930
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
may = "M. perditus" | ||||||||||
Merychippus cf. vellicans
Hay 1924
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Miohippus cf. navasotae
Hay 1924
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Palaeomerycidae indet.
Lydekker 1883
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
= ? Prosynthetoceras sp.
Frick 1937
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Hesse 1943 | |||||||||
"Palaeomerycidae (fragment of Prosynthetoceras horn?)" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Prosthennops sp.
Matthew and Gidley 1904
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
"Prosthennops sp. (small)" of red 1833 | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Batrachosauroididae
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Batrachosauroides dissimulans
Taylor and Hesse 1943
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Siren miotexana n. sp.
Holman 1977
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
Amphiuma antica n. sp.
Holman 1977
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Holman 1977 | |||||||||
originally entered as "Amphiuma antiqua" | ||||||||||
Actinopteri
- Lepisosteiformes
- Lepisosteidae
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Lepisosteus sp.
Agassiz 1843
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Sellards 1941 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Polk |
Coordinates: | 30.7° North, 94.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 31.2° North, 91.7° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 16.3 - 12.5 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying,surface (in situ),field collection | ||
Collection size: | 85 specimens | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1940 |
Collection method comments: WPA: "Unfortunately, the locality had to be abandoned after a few weeks, due to
the landowner’s unfavorable disposition toward excavations on his property." | |||
Taxonomic list comments:same level as Gay Hill according to Hesse, but placed at the higher Trinity River Pit 1 level by Tedford et al. 1987 "85 catalogued specimens" |
Metadata
Also known as: | Barringer Farm; TMM 31057, WPA, Work Project No. 17060 | ||
Database number: | 18646 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Carrano |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2020-01-17 16:30:49 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
934 | ETE 1536 | L. B. Albright. 1996. Insectivores, rodents, and carnivores of the Toledo Bend Local Fauna: an Arikareean (earliest Miocene) assemblage from the Texas Coastal Plain. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16(3):458-473 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner] |
6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
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] | |
1833 | C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] | |
713 | J. A. Holman. 1977. Amphibians and reptiles from the Gulf Coast Miocene of Texas. Herpetologica 33(4):391-403 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] | |
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] | |
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] | |
3190 | B. H. Slaughter. 1981. A New Genus of Geomyoid Rodent from the Miocene of Texas and Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):111-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |