Meade's Quarry 14, Mount Blanco: Late/Upper Pliocene, Texas
collected by WPA 1941
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Testudinata
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Testudinata indet.
Oppel 1811
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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Stegomastodon sp.
Pohlig 1912
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Crosby |
| Coordinates: | 33.8° North, 101.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 33.9° North, 100.6° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Pliocene |
| Stage: | Piacenzian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pliocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 3.60000 - 2.58000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Blanco |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Museum repositories: | TMM | ||
| Collectors: | WPA | Collection dates: | 1941 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | TMM 31194, WPA, Site 14, Work Project No. 15995 | ||
| Database number: | 207488 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2020-01-13 12:18:15 | Last modified: | 2020-01-17 14:57:53 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2020-01-13 12:18:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 71468. | Anonymous. 1941. The ninth quarterly report covering the quarter ending June 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project. O.P. No. 665-66-3-233. State Serial No. 300-88 1-41 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
| 71494 | E. H. Sellards. 1941. Final report covering the period from March 4, 1939 ro September 30, 1941 for the state-wide paleontologic-mineralogic survey in Texas. A Federal Works Agency Work Projects Administration Project iii-85 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |