Swartaut: Barstovian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras meridianum
(Leidy 1865)
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"Two miles below Swartaut" | ||||||||||
Peraceras hessei
Prothero and Manning 1987
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Aphelops megalodus
(Cope 1873)
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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 |
Time
Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
*Period: | Tertiary | ||
Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Fleming |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:said to be in the Cold Spring fauna F:AM locality |
Metadata
Database number: | 18660 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | J. Marcot | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2023-10-11 15:02:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |