Lewisville Dam: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected by T. E. White, G. L. Evans, E. B. Jelks, W. W. Crook, R. K. Harris 1949 - 1957
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Fusconaia cf. undulata
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Stenotrema monodon
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also "Stenotrema monodon aliciae" | ||||||||||
Aguispira alternata
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Mesomphix sp.
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Angiospermae
- Rosales
- Ulmaceae
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Celtis sp.
Linnaeus 1753
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Polygyridae
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Polygyra cf. texasiana
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Bivalvia
- Unionida
- Unionidae
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Quadrula frustulosa
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Amblema plicata
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys ludovicianus
(Ord 1815)
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Citellus sp.
Oken 1816
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synonym of Spermophilus | ||||||||||
Sciurus niger
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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"leucopus or maniculatus" | ||||||||||
Peromyscus gossypinus
(Le Conte 1853)
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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"possibly extinct" possible new species | ||||||||||
Sylvilagus floridanus
(Allen 1890)
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scalopus aquaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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large and medium sized forms | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus ? alemanii
Dugès 1887
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synonym of Platygonus compressus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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large and small sized forms | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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? Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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includes a skull that "probably" belongs "to the Bison antiquus taylori group" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Mephitis mephitis
(Schreber 1776)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon lotor
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Euarctos sp.
Gray 1864
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synonym of Ursus | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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large and small sized forms | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Glyptodontidae
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Glyptodon sp.
Owen 1839
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"scutes" | ||||||||||
= Glyptotherium sp.
Osborn 1903
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Lutugin 1894 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
(Illiger 1811)
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Terrapene canaliculata
Hay 1907
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synonym of Terrapene putnami | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Testudo sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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a 'large" form and a "'Gopherus' type turtle" | ||||||||||
= Gopherus sp.
Rafinesque 1832
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Lutugin 1894 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Colubridae indet.
Oppel 1811
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"group A" and "group B" | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Aves indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Pisces
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Pisces indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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synonym of Osteichthyes | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Denton |
Coordinates: | 33.1° North, 97.0° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 33.1° North, 97.0° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: the pit "removed some 20 feet of earth from the local [Upper Shuler subformation of the] Pemberton Hill-Lewisville (T-2) terrace surface" (thought to be Peorian = mid-Wisconsinan in age) and hearths were recovered from layers 1, 2, 3, and 5 in the local sequence of seven layers, each capped by "a minor uncomformity and caliche formation"; there are radiocarbon dates on "charred, fibrous, vegetable material" and "remains of 4 small logs" of "more than 37,000 years B.P." from two distinct hearth sites in layer 2 |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | yellow sandy claystone |
Lithology description: "yellow sandy clay" | |
Environment: | "floodplain" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | salvage,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
Collectors: | T. E. White, G. L. Evans, E. B. Jelks, W. W. Crook, R. K. Harris | Collection dates: | 1949 - 1957 |
Collection method comments: borrow pit was excavated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers from 1949 to 1951 and by the Dallas Archeological Society from 1952 to 1957 | |||
Taxonomic list comments:molluscs were "present in quantity only as burned material within the hearths themselves" |
Metadata
Database number: | 93527 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-01-20 16:51:19 | Last modified: | 2022-03-07 10:15:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-20 16:51:19 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31646. | W. W. Crook, Jr. and R. K. Harris. 1958. A Pleistocene campsite near Lewisville, Texas. American Antiquity 23(3):233-246 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |