Noble Farm: Barstovian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Gomphotheriidae
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? Gomphotherium sp.
Burmeister 1837
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| "Trilophodon sp.?": probably includes "G. cimmaronis" of Schiebout 1997b from Ed Noble Farm, TMM 40773, near Navasota | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Aelurodon francisi
Hay 1924
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= Tomarctus brevirostris
Cope 1873
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Wang et al. 1999 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Procamelus leptognathus
Cope 1893
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Hay 1924 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Cervidae indet.
Gray 1821
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= Ruminantia indet.
Scopoli 1777
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras medicornutum
Osborn 1904
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
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Aphelops meridianus
(Leidy 1865)
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= Teleoceras meridianum
Leidy 1865
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
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Aphelops sp.
Owen 1845
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= Peraceras hessei
Prothero and Manning 1987
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Prothero and Manning 1987 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus perditus
(Leidy 1858)
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| recombined as Protohippus perditus | ||||||||||
| confirmed by Hulbert 1988a | ||||||||||
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Calippus circulus
(Quinn 1955)
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
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Merychippus francisi
Hay 1924
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= Calippus proplacidus
Osborn 1918
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
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Hipparionini indet.
Quinn 1955
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
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Merychippus gunteri
Simpson 1930
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Grimes |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 95.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.8° North, 92.7° 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:above the Moulton Sandstone "several dozen horse teeth" | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Cold Spring fauna; Barry Farm; TMM 40138; TAM 19 | ||
| Database number: | 18650 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | G. Varnham | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-09-27 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-03-21 05:45:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-09-27 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] | |
| 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] | |
| 51367 | O. P. Hay. 1924. Description of some fossil vertebrates from the Upper Miocene of Texas. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 37:1-18 [J. Marcot/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] | |
| 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] | |
| 3558 | X. Wang, R. H. Tedford, and B. E. Taylor. 1999. Phylogenetic systematics of the Borophaginae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 243:1-392 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |