Raymondville V (Site 1): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Gopherus hexagonatus
(Cope 1893)
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| original and current combination Testudo hexagonata | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Willacy |
| Coordinates: | 26.4° North, 97.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.4° North, 97.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 33 ± 2.9 Ka (other) |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Beaumont | ||||
| Local section: | Raymondville V | Local bed: | 2 m | ||
| Local order: | top to bottom | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Date based on OSL analysis | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: silty loam | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
| Geology comments: The silt-dominated sediments from which the Pleistocene fauna was collected suggest a floodplain environment that experienced regular flooding as a result of the wetter climate. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,trace |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
Metadata
| Database number: | 196664 | ||
| Authorizer: | E. Vlachos | Enterer: | E. Vlachos |
| Created: | 2018-09-27 07:35:11 | Last modified: | 2018-09-27 07:35:11 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-09-27 07:35:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 66907. | R. G. De La Garza, J. L. Gonzalez, and Z. Shen. 2018. Luminescence chronology of a Mass Grave of Giant Gopher Tortoises (Gopherus hexagonatus), Willacy County, TX. Bulletin of the South Texas Geological Society 20-33 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos] |