Gilliland: Irvingtonian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Meleagridae
Agriocharis anza Howard 1963
Brodkorb 1964
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) sp. (Williams 1950)
Auffenberg 1962
spelled with current rank as Hesperotestudo
Mammalia - Cingulata - Pampatheriidae
Chlamytherium septentrionale (Leidy 1889)
    = Holmesina septentrionalis Leidy 1889
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon fredericensis (Meade 1953)
    = Glyptotherium arizonae Gidley 1926
Alroy 2002
synonym of Glyptotherium texanum
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon harlani (Owen 1840)
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium cf. shastense Sinclair 1905
    = Nothrotheriops texanus Hay 1916
McDonald 1995
original and current combination Nothrotherium texanum
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus imperator (Leidy 1858)
    = Mammuthus hayi Barbour 1915
Alroy 2002
"Mammuthus imperator haroldcooki": apparently Madden believes that M. "meridionalis" is a j. s. of M. imperator
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Stegomastodon barbouri (Osborn 1921)
    = Morrillia barbouri Osborn 1921
Madden 1986
"S. cf. mirificus"; confirmed by Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Cuvieronius sp. Osborn 1923
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon sp. Storr 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. lupus Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis armbrusteri Gidley 1913
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
"C. edwardii" of Nowak 1979
Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
Tedford et al. 2009
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823
    = Canis latrans Say 1823
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Homotherium cf. serum (Cope 1893)
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
synonym of Homotherium latidens
"Dinobastis"
Acinonyx studeri (Savage 1960)
    = Miracinonyx studeri Savage 1960
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
"Felis cf. concolor"
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus calobatus (Troxell 1915)
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
synonym of Equus francisci
Equus giganteus Gidley 1901
Equus scotti Gidley 1900
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
(4 measurements)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus copei Simpson 1945
    = Tapirus haysii Leidy 1860
Alroy 2002
recombined as Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus cf. cumberlandensis Gidley 1920
(5 measurements)
    = Platygonus vetus Leidy 1882
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Camelidae
Titanotylopus sp. Barbour and Schultz 1934
    = Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Alroy 2002
could be Gigantocamelus, and was identified as such by Hibbard and Dalquest 1962
Tanupolama seymourensis n. sp. Hibbard and Dalquest 1962
    = Hemiauchenia seymourensis Hibbard and Dalquest 1962
Alroy 2002
synonym of Hemiauchenia macrocephala
includes additional record of "Tanupolama cf. blancoensis"
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
    = Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
? Tetrameryx knoxensis n. sp. Hibbard and Dalquest 1960
Hibbard and Dalquest 1960
    = Tetrameryx knoxensis Hibbard and Dalquest 1960
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
    = Sylvilagus cf. floridanus Allen 1890
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Ondatra annectens (Brown 1908)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys cf. ludovicianus (Ord 1815)
Dalquest and Carpenter 1988
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Knox and Baylor
Coordinates: 33.8° North, 99.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.8° North, 99.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
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:general faunal unit that includes the Burnett Quarry (see); lists are kept separate because the Burnett Quarry was discovered in 1978, thus the two collections are independent
Metadata
Database number:20342
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Bloch, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot, R. Hulbert
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:
1899. C. W. Hibbard and W. W. Dalquest. 1966. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 21(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
27051 W. Auffenberg. 1962. A new species of Geochelone from the Pleistocene of Texas. Copeia 1962(3):627-636 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
50556 P. Brodkorb. 1964. Notes on fossil turkeys. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 27(3):223-229 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]
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]
1897 C. W. Hibbard and W. W. Dalquest. 1960. A New Antilocaprid from the Pleistocene of Knox County, Texas. Journal of Mammalogy 41(1) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2392 C. T. Madden. 1986. Stegomastodon associated with Mammuthus in Arizona during the Quaternary. Quaternary Research 26(2):266-271 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2499 H. G. McDonald. 1995. Gravigrade xenarthrans from the early Pleistocene Leisey Shell Pit 1A, Hillsborough County, Florida. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 37(11) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]