Red Corral: Blancan, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon medius Gidley 1922
    = Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
Kurten and Anderson 1980
could be S. minor
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Procastoroides sweeti Barbour and Schultz 1937
Kurten and Anderson 1980
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus hibbardi White 1984
White 1991
Hypolagus edensis Frick 1921
White 1988
Hypolagus furlongi Gazin 1934
White 1988
Hypolagus gidleyi White 1988
White 1988
Pewelagus dawsonae White 1984
White 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Trigonictis cookii (Gazin 1934)
Anderson 1984
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lepophagus Johnston 1938
Nowak 1979
Borophagus diversidens Cope 1892
Wang et al. 1999
Proctor Pit C; Proctor Pit D; "Near Proctor Pit A"; Bevins Pit 1; Collins Pit 2
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Plesippus sp. Matthew 1924
    = Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
Nannippus sp. (Matthew 1926)
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
Megalonyx sp. Harlan 1825
Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
Proctor Pit C, said to be a Blancan F:AM locality "in the Texas Panhandle"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Oldham
Coordinates: 35.4° North, 102.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.5° North, 101.9° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
*Local age/stage:Blancan
Key time interval:Blancan
Age range of interval:4.70000 - 1.40000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: said to be Blancan
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:not the same as Channing (see)
Metadata
Database number:20034
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-04-30 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1994-04-30 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3371. D. W. Taylor. 1960. Late Cenozoic molluscan faunas from the High Plains. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 337:1-94 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
948 E. Anderson. 1984. Review of the Small Carnivores of North America During the Last 3.5 Million Years. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:257-266 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
1919 S. E. Hirschfeld and S. D. Webb. 1968. Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(5) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
6221 B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America 1-442 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
2673 R. M. Nowak. 1979. North American Quaternary Canis. Monograph of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas 6:1-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3558 X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3632 J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3633 J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]