Burkeville (TAM 43): Miocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Pleurocera acutum
Stenzel et al. 1944
"P. acutum burkevillense": 175-T-3 (uncertain)
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea normalis Gardner 1926
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
Bivalvia - Unionida - Unionidae
Unio sp. Philipsson 1788
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3 (uncertain)
Gastropoda - Pleuroceridae
Goniobasis miocaenica
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3 (uncertain)
Gastropoda - Potamididae
Potamides matsoni Dall 1913
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3 (uncertain)
Reptilia
Aves indet. Linnaeus 1758
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
Reptilia - Testudines
Chelonia indet. (Latreille 1800)
synonym of Testudines
two forms: 175-T-3
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Proboscidea
? Desmostylus sp. Marsh 1888
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
    = ? Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811
Tedford et al. 1987
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus perditus (Leidy 1858)
(1 measurement)
    = Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
    = Merychippus gunteri Simpson 1930
Forsten 1975
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
175-T-3
Mammalia
? Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877
also reported by Stenzel et al. 1944 as from 175-T-3
    = Ruminantia indet. Scopoli 1777
Alroy 2002
Actinopteri - Lepisosteiformes - Lepisosteidae
Lepisosteus sp. Agassiz 1843
"Lepidosteus"
    = Lepisosteidae indet. Cuvier 1825
Stenzel et al. 1944
Actinopteri - Siluriformes - Siluridae
Ameiurus sp. Rafinesque 1820
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
Chondrichthyes - Myliobatiformes - Myliobatidae
Plinthicus cf. stenodon Cope 1869
    = Plinthicus sp. Cope 1869
Stenzel et al. 1944
Rhinoptera sp. Cuvier 1829
Stenzel et al. 1944
175-T-3
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Newton
Coordinates: 31.0° North, 93.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.4° North, 90.5° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Neogene Epoch:Miocene
*Period:Tertiary
Key time interval:Miocene
Age range of interval:23.03000 - 5.33300 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Metadata
Also known as:BEG 175-T-3
Database number:18614
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:43
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:

1504 A. -M. Forsten. 1975. The Fossil Horses of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain: A Revision . Pearce-Sellards Series 22:1-86 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3214 H. B. Stenzel, F. E. Turner, and C. J. Hesse. 1944. Brackish and Non-Marine Miocene in Southeastern Texas. Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists 28(7):977-1111 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]
6198 R. H. Tedford, T. Galusha, M. F. Skinner, B. E. Taylor, R. W. Fields, J. R. Macdonald, J. M. Rensberger, S. D. Webb, and D. P. Whistler. 1987. Faunal succession and biochronology of the Arikareean through Hemphillian interval (late Oligocene through earliest Pliocene epochs) in North America. In M. O. Woodburne (ed.), Cenozoic Mammals of North America: Geochronology and Biostratigraphy 153-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/P. Wagner]