Cita Canyon: Blancan, Texas
collected by C. S. Johnston

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Miller and Johnston 1937
two tarsometarsi
    = Meleagris leopoldi n. sp. Miller and Bowman 1956
Stidham 2011
described by Miller and Bowman 1956; id reaffirmed by Stidham 2011
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
Oelrich 1957
"an immature specimen of the large turtles which are found in the Cita Canyon beds" (i.e., canyonensis)
Auffenberg 1962
"Testudo rugosa" (nomen nudum) of C. S. Johnston's Ph.D. thesis (1 measurement)
Mammalia - Cingulata - Glyptodontidae
Mammalia - Mylodontidae
Paramylodon sp. Brown 1903
Mammalia - Megalonychidae
    = Megalonyx leptostomus Cope 1893
Hirschfeld and Webb 1968
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
White 1988
presumably includes "H. cf. regalis"
White 1991
Mammalia - Talpidae
Talpidae indet. (Fischer de Waldheim 1817)
Mammalia - Camelidae
Webb 1974
"Tanupolama" and "Pliauchenia"
Webb 1965
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
    = Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
may include presumably spurious identifications "Equus cf. occidentalis" and "Astrohippus"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Werdelin 1985
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Werdelin 1985
(1 measurement)
Savage 1960
(2 measurements)
Mawby 1965
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Stirton and Christian 1940
(3 measurements)
Alroy 2002
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Tedford et al. 2009
Canis edwardii Gazin 1942
Tedford et al. 2009
Hibbard 1970
confirmed by Wang et al. 1999
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Taxidea sp. Waterhouse 1839
    = Taxidea cf. taxus Schreber 1778
Hibbard 1970
Anderson 1984
presumably "? Mephitinae indet."
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon sp. Storr 1780
Anderson 1984
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Gomphotheriidae
Savage 1955
DUPLICATE REF 3015 or 3016
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Randall
Coordinates: 34.9° North, 101.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.6° North, 100.5° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
*Period:Tertiary *Epoch:Pliocene
Key time interval: Blancan
Age range of interval: 4.7 - 1.4 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: "The fossil bearing beds are... approximately thirty feet thick" (Stirton and Christian 1940)
two fossiliferous levels through about 6 m of section, but mostly from UCMP V-3721
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:fine poorly lithified sandstone
Lithology description: "fine river sand" (Miller and Johnstone 1937) and "semi-consolidated" (Stirton and Christian 1940)
Environment:"channel"
Geology comments: "of fluvial origin" (Stirton and Christian 1940)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:C. S. Johnston
Collection method comments: Panhandle Plains Historical Museum collection
Metadata
Also known as:Evans and Meade Locality 4; UCMP V-3721; Harold Ranch; Harrell Ranch
Database number:20033
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, J. Marcot Enterer:J. Alroy, P. Holroyd, J. Marcot
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:1993-02-18 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:1993-02-18 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2044. C. S. Johnston and D. E. Savage. 1955. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(2) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
948 E. Anderson. 1984. Review of the Small Carnivores of North America During the Last 3.5 Million Years. In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:257-266 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
27051 W. Auffenberg. 1962. A new species of Geochelone from the Pleistocene of Texas. Copeia 1962(3):627-636 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1894 C. W. Hibbard. 1970. in Dort and Jones [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
1919 S. E. Hirschfeld and S. D. Webb. 1968. Plio-Pleistocene Megalonychid Sloths of North America. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum 12(5) [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
2485 J. E. Mawby. 1965. Machairodonts from the Late Cenozoic of the Panhandle of Texas. Journal of Mammalogy 46(4):578-587 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
28981 L. Miller and C. S. Johnston. 1937. A Pliocene record of Parapavo from Texas. Condor 39(5):229 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
34314 T. M. Oelrich. 1957. The status of the Upper Pliocene turtle, Testudo turgida Cope. Journal of Paleontology 31(1):228-241 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3015 D. E. Savage. 1955. Nonmarine Lower Pliocene Sediments in California. A Geochronologic-Stratigraphic Classification. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 31(1):1-26 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
6271 D. E. Savage. 1960. A survey of various late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas of the Panhandle of Texas. Part 3, Felidae. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 36(6):317-343 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
67652 T. A. Stidham. 2011. The carpometacarpus of the Pliocene turkey Meleagris leopoldi (Galliformes: Phasianidae) and the problem of morphological variability in turkeys. PaleoBios 30(1):13-17 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]
28980 R. A. Stirton and W. G. Christian. 1940. A member of the Hyaenidae from the Upper Pliocene of Texas. Journal of Mammalogy 21(4):445-448 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]
3562 S. D. Webb. 1965. The osteology of Camelops. Bulletin of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Science 1:1-53 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]
3569 S. D. Webb. 1974. Pleistocene llamas of Florida, with a brief review of the Lamini. In S. D. Webb (ed.), Pleistocene Mammals of Florida 170-213 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3585 L. Werdelin. 1985. Small Pleistocene felines of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 5(3):194-210 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
3632 J. A. White. 1988. The Archaeolaginae (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) of North America, Excluding Archaeolagus and Panolax. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 7(4):425-450 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]
3633 J. A. White. 1991. North American Leporinae (Mammalia: Lagomorpha) from late Miocene (Clarendonian) to latest Pliocene (Blancan). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 11(1):67-89 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]