Burnett Quarry: Irvingtonian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Eptesicus fuscus
(Beauvois 1796)
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| a bat | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptotherium sp.
Osborn 1903
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus scotti
Gidley 1900
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| synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Tetrameryx knoxensis
Hibbard and Dalquest 1960
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| "T. seymourensis" (lapsus calami) is listed in the discussion, but T. knoxensis is described | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Hemiauchenia sp.
Gervais and Ameghino 1880
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Taxidea taxus
(Schreber 1778)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Spilogale putorius
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Notiosorex crawfordi
(Coues 1877)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus cf. floridanus
(Allen 1890)
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys ludovicianus
(Ord 1815)
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= Cynomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Goodwin 1995 | |||||||||
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Dipodomys pattersoni n. sp.
Dalquest and Carpenter 1986
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Perognathus sp.
Maximillian 1839
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= Perognathinae indet.
Coues 1875
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys tobinensis
(Hibbard 1944)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
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Castor canadensis
Kuhl 1820
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Onychomys pedroensis
Gidley 1922
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Peromyscus cragini
Hibbard 1944
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Microtus paroperarius
Hibbard 1944
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Pitymys llanensis
(Hibbard 1944)
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| original and current combination Microtus llanensis | ||||||||||
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Proneofiber guildayi n. sp.
Hibbard and Dalquest 1973
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Sigmodon cf. curtisi
Gidley 1922
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Knox |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 99.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.8° North, 99.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Seymour |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Taxonomic list comments:part of the Gilliland L.F. (see), but a different (post- 1977) collection than that of Hibbard and Dalquest 1966 Vulpes "macrotis" Anderson 1984: "Burnet"; not clear if this is Gilliland or Burnett Quarry |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20164 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1319. | W. W. Dalquest and R. M. Carpenter. 1988. Early Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) mammals from the Seymour Formation, Knox and Baylor Counties, Texas, exclusive of Camelidae. Occasional Papers, Museum, Texas Tech University 124 [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] | |
| 1685 | H. T. Goodwin. 1995. Systematic revision of fossil prairie dogs with descriptions of two new species. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Miscellaneous Publications 86:1-38 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] |