Red Hill: Barstovian, Texas
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Carnivora
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Carnivora indet.
Bowdich 1821
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Merychippus vetus
(Quinn 1955)
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= Protohippus vetus
Quinn 1955
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Forsten 1975 | |||||||||
"Merychippus perditus"; TMM 40141 | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapridae indet.
Gray 1866
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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] |