Also known as TMM 41672; Midwestern State University Dalquest Research Site
Where: Presidio County, Texas (29.9° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 32.3° N, 94.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Member (Devil's Graveyard Formation), Late/Upper Uintan (46.2 - 39.7 Ma)
• Atwater et al. 2020: The maximum depositional age calculated for the Purple Bench locality (43.5 – 44.5 Ma) constrains the absolute age of the late Uintan NALMA (Ui3) within the Tornillo Basin.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the TMM
Primary reference: J. A. Wilson. 1986. Stratigraphic Occurrence and Correlation of Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Agua Fria-Green Valley Areas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 6(4):350-373 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 16614: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.04.1994, edited by Patricia Holroyd
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
| |
Mammalia | |
| |
| |
Prolapsus sp. Wood 1973 rodent | |
Microparamys sp. Wood 1959 rodent
Thisbemys sp. Wood 1959 rodent
Leptotomus sp. Matthew 1910 rodent
Paramys cf. delicatior Leidy 1871 rodent | |
| |
| |
Mescalerolemur horneri n. gen. n. sp.2
| |
| |
| |
| |
Protoreodon petersoni Gazin 1955 agriochoerid
Protoreodon pumilus Marsh 1875 agriochoerid | |
| |
? Protylopus sp. Wortman 1898 even-toed ungulate | |
Texodon meridianus n. sp.
| |
| |
| |
| |
Hyopsodus paulus6 Leidy 1870 condylarth omitted accidentally by Wilson (?) but confirmed by Williams and Kirk 2008
| |
Reptilia | |
| |
Squamata indet.4 squamates TMM 41672-253, large partial left mandible; vertebrae including TMM 41672-272, TMM 41672- 273, TMM 41672-274, TMM 41672-275, and TMM 41672-276; TMM 41672-259, unpaired frontal; TMM 41672-258, body of a large parietal
Alethinophidia indet.4 snake Includes vertebrae TMM 41672-265, TMM 41672-266, TMM 41672-267, TMM 41672-268
| |
Glyptosaurinae indet.4 Marsh 1872 squamates TMM 41672-256 and TMM 41672-257, two large premaxillae; cranial and postcranial osteoderms, including TMM 41672-269, TMM 41672-270, TMM 41672-271
| |
Solastella cookei n. gen. n. sp.4
Solastella cookei n. gen. n. sp.4 Stocker and Kirk 2016 worm lizard TMM 41672-246 (holotype), partial skull and articulated left mandibular ramus missing anterior portion of the premaxilla, right maxilla, right circumorbital elements, and right side of the occipital condyle; TMM 41672-243, skull with complete mandible; TMM 41672-244, partial skull with partial left mandibular ramus; TMM 41672-245, partial skull with left mandibular ramus; TMM 41672-247, partial skull; TMM 41672-249, partial skull.
| |
| |
| |
Scenopagus | |
Scenopagus sp.7 McKenna and Simpson 1959 |