Charley Risley Ranch: Clarendonian, Texas
collected by Will Chamberlain, Works Progress Administration 1936
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Protoceratidae
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Synthetoceras tricornatus
Stirton 1932
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Patton and Taylor 1971 | |||||||||
| Dilli Place | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Procamelus leptognathus n. sp.
Cope 1893
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Schultz 1990 | |||||||||
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= Camelidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
| a nomen dubium; see Honey et al. 1998 | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Nannippus gratus
(Leidy 1869)
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| "Charley Rizzley Ranch" (6 measurements) | ||||||||||
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= Pseudhipparion hessei
Webb and Hulbert 1986
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Webb and Hulbert 1986 | |||||||||
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Pliohippus pernix
Marsh 1874
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Schultz 1990 | |||||||||
| supposedly includes type of P. pachyops (but see Forsten 1991, Kelly 1995, 1998) | ||||||||||
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Pliohippus fossulatus
(Cope 1893)
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun.: type; listed by Schultz 1990c under "P. pernix"; type loc. is "Whitfish Creek, 2 mi. S Allan reed" | ||||||||||
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Calippus martini
Hesse 1936
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Calippus placidus
(Leidy 1869)
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Calippus regulus
Johnston 1937
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Hulbert 1989 | |||||||||
| pers. commun. | ||||||||||
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Protohippus supremus
Leidy 1869
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Hulbert 1988 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Teleoceras major
Hatcher 1894
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Prothero 2005 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Donley |
| Coordinates: | 35.0° North, 100.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 35.5° North, 98.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Neogene | Epoch: | Miocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 5-6 | ||
| *Period: | Tertiary | ||
| Key time interval: | Clarendonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 12.50000 - 9.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Clarendon Beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,gray calcareous claystone |
| Secondary lithology: | coarse sandstone |
| Lithology description: "Gray, somewhat calcareous clay predominates... interbedded in some instances with coarse sand... Many of the specimens collected are incased in hard calcitic concretions." | |
| Environment: | "floodplain" |
| Geology comments: "flood-plain deposit" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,concretion |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera | ||
| Collection methods: | survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Will Chamberlain, Works Progress Administration | Collection dates: | 1936 |
| Collection method comments: reposited in the West Texas State Teachers College collection | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:equids: Hulbert 1989 pers. commun. | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | Dilli Place; Rizzey Ranch; Turkey Creek | ||
| Database number: | 18347 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot | Enterer: | J. Alroy, J. Marcot |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2007-07-26 00:19:50 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1992-08-05 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 7561. | C. S. Johnston. 1938. The skull of Nannippus gratus (Leidy) from the Lower Pliocene of Texas. American Midland Naturalist 19(1):245-248 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1949 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1988. Calippus and Protohippus (Mammalia, Perissodactyla, Equidae) from the Miocene (Barstovian-early Hemphillian) of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences 32(3):221-340 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/R. Hulbert] | |
| 1952 | R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1989. Phylogenetic Interrelationships and Evolution of North American Late Equidae. In D. R. Prothero and R. M. Schoch (eds.), The Evolution of Perissodactyls [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen] | |
| 2739 | T. H. Patton and B. E. Taylor. 1971. The Synthetoceratinae (Mammalia, Tylopoda, Protoceratidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 145(2):119-218 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/B. Beatty] | |
| 51726 | D. R. Prothero. 2005. The Evolution of North American Rhinoceroses. 1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot] | |
| 6207 | G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 14: The Clarendonian faunas of the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. In T. C. Gustavson (ed.), Tertiary and Quaternary stratigraphy and vertebrate paleontology of parts of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico; Guidebook - Bureau of Economic Geology, University of Texas at Austin 83-93 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 6227 | S. D. Webb and R. C. Hulbert, Jr. 1986. Systematics and evolution of Pseudhipparion (Mammalia, Equidae) from the late Neogene of the Gulf Coastal Plain and the Great Plains. Contributions to Geology, the University of Wyoming, Special Paper 3:237-272 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |