Cold Spring, San Jacinto site 3: Barstovian, Texas
collected by WPA 1941

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia
Crocodylus sp. Laurenti 1768
Alligator sp. Daudin 1809
Reptilia - Testudinata
Testudinata indet. Oppel 1811
Mammalia
Eutheria indet. (Huxley 1880)
Schiebout and Ting 1998
an insectivore or a chiropteran; Anderson Site 2
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mastodontidae indet. (Gray 1821)
    = Trilophodon sp. Falconer 1857
Sellards 1941
    = Gomphotherium productum Cope 1874
Hesse 1943
    = Gomphotherium obscurum Leidy 1869
Tobien 1973
"Trilophodon sp."
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Copemys sp. Wood 1936
Schiebout and Ting 1998
Anderson Site 2
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Heteromyidae indet. Gray 1868
Schiebout and Ting 1998
Anderson Site 2
Mammalia - Rodentia
Texomys ritchiei n. sp. Slaughter 1981
Slaughter 1981
TMM 31219
Mammalia - Lagomorpha
Lagomorpha indet. Brandt 1885
Hesse 1943
"Rodent (Lepus?)"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tomarctus sp. Cope 1873
Sellards 1941
    = Borophaginae indet. Simpson 1945
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Merycoidodontidae
Ticholeptus rileyi n. sp. Schultz and Falkenbach 1941
Hesse 1943
synonym of Ticholeptus zygomaticus
Riley specimen from "Cold Springs area"
Mammalia - Moschidae
Blastomeryx sp. Cope 1877
Hesse 1943
    = Blastomerycinae indet. Frick 1937
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Protoceratidae
Prosynthetoceras sp. (Frick 1937)
Sellards 1941
    = Prosynthetoceras francisi n. sp. Frick 1937
Hesse 1943
of Frick 1937 see also Patton 1969a
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Floridatragulus hesperus Patton 1969
Patton 1969
synonym of Floridatragulus texanus
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equidae indet. Gray 1821
(1 measurement)
    = Merychippus gunteri Simpson 1930
Forsten 1975
Merychippus perditus (Leidy 1858)
Hesse 1943
recombined as Protohippus perditus
confirmed by Hulbert 1988a (1 measurement)
Merychippus sp. Leidy 1856
Sellards 1941
(6 measurements)
    = Merychippus francisi Hay 1924
Hesse 1943
    = Calippus proplacidus Osborn 1918
Hulbert 1988
Calippus circulus (Quinn 1955)
Hulbert 1988
Hipparionini indet. Quinn 1955
Forsten 1975
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Rhinocerotidae indet. Gray 1821
    = Teleoceras medicornutus
Prothero and Sereno 1982
TMM 31219
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
Sellards 1941
"Aphelops (probably A. meridianus)"; also at Donohoe Pit
    = Teleoceras meridianum Leidy 1865
Prothero and Manning 1987
Aphelops sp. Owen 1845
Hesse 1943
(3 measurements)
    = Peraceras hessei Prothero and Manning 1987
Prothero and Manning 1987
(said to be new, small form); also at F:AM Donohoe Pit
Aphelops megalodus (Cope 1873)
Prothero and Sereno 1982
only specimens discussed by Prothero and Manning 1987 are from F:AM localities 2 mi. NE and 3 mi N of Cold Spring
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:San Jacinto
Coordinates: 30.6° North, 95.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.1° North, 92.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
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
Local section:Flmng Local bed:6
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,surface (in situ),sieve,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Museum repositories:TMM
Collectors:WPA Collection dates:1941
Taxonomic list comments:called "Trinity River local fauna" by Slaughter 1981
early "Cold Springs area" F:AM collections of Riley are from this locality
Anderson Site 2 is "2.4 km (1.5 miles) north of Coldspring": Schiebout and Ting 1998
at top of Fleming section and above Point Blank localities
Metadata
Also known as:Anderson Site 2; Jim Donahoe or Donohoe Farm; A. D. Donohoe Pit; TMM 31219; TAM 38 (in part), WPA, Work Project No. 17060
Database number:18619
Authorizer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano Enterer:J. Alroy, M. Carrano
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-09-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2020-01-17 16:25:43
Access level:the public Released:1993-09-27 00:00:00
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:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
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]
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]
1949 R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert]
2737 T. H. Patton. 1969. Miocene and Pliocene Artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 14(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2807 D. R. Prothero and E. M. Manning. 1987. Miocene rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Journal of Paleontology 61(2):388-423 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
28095% 29700D. R. Prothero and P. C. Sereno. 1982. Allometry and paleoecology of medial Miocene dwarf rhinoceroses from the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain. Paleobiology 8(1):16-30 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Carrano]
3033 J. A. Schiebout and S. Ting. 1998. Texas Journal of Science 50(3):199-204 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3063 C. B. Schultz and C. H. Falkenbach. 1941. Ticholeptinae, a new subfamily of oreodonts. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 79(1):1-105 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
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]
3190 B. H. Slaughter. 1981. A New Genus of Geomyoid Rodent from the Miocene of Texas and Panama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 1(1):111-115 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
3433 H. Tobien. 1973. On the Evolution of Mastodonts (Proboscidea, Mammalia); Part 1, The bunodont trilophodont Groups. Notizblatt des Hessischen Landesamtes fuer Bodenforschung zu Wiesbaden 101:202-276 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]