Akin Hill: Barstovian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Artiodactyla
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Artiodactyla indet.
Owen 1848
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Mammalia
- Moschidae
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Blastomeryx sp.
Cope 1877
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= Blastomerycinae indet.
Frick 1937
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Synthetoceras rileyi n. sp.
Frick 1937
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= Prosynthetoceras texanus
Hay 1924
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Patton and Taylor 1971 | |||||||||
| replaces ID of Frick and "P. sp." of Hesse | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Walker |
| Coordinates: | 30.6° North, 95.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 31.1° North, 92.2° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Barstovian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 16.30000 - 12.50000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Fleming |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | TMM |
| Taxonomic list comments:"very low in the Fleming section, and most of the exposures in this vicinity are Catahoula"; considered an equivalent of Cedar Run by Tedford et al. 1987 | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Garvin Gully fauna; TMM 30873; TMM 31387; TAM 46; Aiken Hill | ||
| Database number: | 18604 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-03-21 05:32:21 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1995-03-26 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 1833. | C. J. Hesse. 1943. A Preliminary Report on the Miocene Vertebrate Faunas of Southeast Texas. Transactions of the Texas Academy of Sciences 26:157-179 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 2739 | T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1971. The Synthetoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 145(2):119-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty] |