Red Hill: Barstovian, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Carnivora
Carnivora indet. Bowdich 1821
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Merychippus vetus (Quinn 1955)
    = Protohippus vetus Quinn 1955
Forsten 1975
"Merychippus perditus"; TMM 40141
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelidae indet. Gray 1821
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
see common names

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:15.97000 - 13.60000 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:within 100 feet zone below contact with overlying Willis Fm.
Metadata
Also known as:Pleasant Hill; TAM 48; TMM 40141
Database number:18655
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:1994-07-27 00:00:00 Last modified:2022-03-21 05:46:02
Access level:the public Released:1994-07-27 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:

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]