Lewisville Dam: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected by T. E. White, G. L. Evans, E. B. Jelks, W. W. Crook, R. K. Harris 1949 - 1957

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Fusconaia cf. undulata
Stenotrema monodon
also "Stenotrema monodon aliciae"
Aguispira alternata
Mesomphix sp.
Angiospermae - Rosales - Ulmaceae
Celtis sp. Linnaeus 1753
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Polygyridae
Polygyra cf. texasiana
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Quadrula frustulosa
Amblema plicata
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord 1815)
Citellus sp. Oken 1816
synonym of Spermophilus
Sciurus niger Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
"leucopus or maniculatus"
Peromyscus gossypinus (Le Conte 1853)
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
"possibly extinct" possible new species
Sylvilagus floridanus (Allen 1890)
Mammalia - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
large and medium sized forms
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Platygonus ? alemanii Dugès 1887
synonym of Platygonus compressus
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
large and small sized forms
Mammalia - Bovidae
? Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
includes a skull that "probably" belongs "to the Bison antiquus taylori group"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mephitis mephitis (Schreber 1776)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Euarctos sp. Gray 1864
synonym of Ursus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
large and small sized forms
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Glyptodon sp. Owen 1839
"scutes"
    = Glyptotherium sp. Osborn 1903
Lutugin 1894
Mammalia - Proboscidea
Proboscidea indet. (Illiger 1811)
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene canaliculata Hay 1907
synonym of Terrapene putnami
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Testudo sp. Linnaeus 1758
a 'large" form and a "'Gopherus' type turtle"
    = Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Lutugin 1894
Reptilia - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811
"group A" and "group B"
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Pisces
Pisces indet. Linnaeus 1758
synonym of Osteichthyes
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Denton
Coordinates: 33.1° North, 97.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:33.1° North, 97.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: the pit "removed some 20 feet of earth from the local [Upper Shuler subformation of the] Pemberton Hill-Lewisville (T-2) terrace surface" (thought to be Peorian = mid-Wisconsinan in age) and hearths were recovered from layers 1, 2, 3, and 5 in the local sequence of seven layers, each capped by "a minor uncomformity and caliche formation"; there are radiocarbon dates on "charred, fibrous, vegetable material" and "remains of 4 small logs" of "more than 37,000 years B.P." from two distinct hearth sites in layer 2
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow sandy claystone
Lithology description: "yellow sandy clay"
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,anthropogenic
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:salvage,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collectors:T. E. White, G. L. Evans, E. B. Jelks, W. W. Crook, R. K. Harris Collection dates:1949 - 1957
Collection method comments: borrow pit was excavated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers from 1949 to 1951 and by the Dallas Archeological Society from 1952 to 1957
Taxonomic list comments:molluscs were "present in quantity only as burned material within the hearths themselves"
Metadata
Database number:93527
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-20 16:51:19 Last modified:2022-03-07 10:15:48
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-20 16:51:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31646. W. W. Crook, Jr. and R. K. Harris. 1958. A Pleistocene campsite near Lewisville, Texas. American Antiquity 23(3):233-246 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]