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Item Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Ceratomorpha Less Amynodontidae(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984-12-07) Wilson, John Andrew; Schiebout, Judith A.Ceratomorph remains found in Eocene and Oligocene deposits of Trans-Pecos Texas are herein described, except for the amynodonts which were described in a previous paper. Hyracodon primus, Hyracodon petersoni, and Colodon stovalli n. sp. are described from well-preserved material; Hyrachyus and Dilophodon are not so well represented. Triplopus, Caenopus, and Trigonias are questionably identified and a skull fragment is provisionally referred to Toxotherium. Changes in faunal lists of Trans-Pecos local faunas are reported. Generalized stratigraphic sections of the Vieja and Agua Fria-Green Valley areas are provided.Item Butterflies from the Middle Eocene: The Earliest Occurrence of Fossil Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera)(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1978) Durden, Christopher J.; Rose, HughThree fossil butterflies recently collected from the Green River Shale of Colorado extend the known range of Rhopalocera eight to ten million years back, to 48 Ma. Praepapilio Colorado n. g., n. sp., and P. gracilis n. sp. are primitive Papilionidae related to the modern Baronia brevicornis Salvin, but they require a new subfamily, Praepapilioninae. Riodinella nympha n. g., n. sp. is a primitive member of the Lycaenidae, related to modern Ancyluris, Riodina, and Rhetus, in the tribe Riodinidi.Item New Brazilian Forms of Hyla(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1968-04) Lutz, BerthaThe author describes three new species and three new subspecies of Hyla, found during her work toward a monograph of the species of Hyla which occur in Brazil. The new species are: Hyla adenoderma from Rondonia territory; H. longilinea from the high mountains at Pogos de Caldas, Minas Gerais; and H. egleri from Belem do Para. The last-named is a northern representative of the forms belonging to the group of H. catharinae from the southern and southeastern serras. The new subspecies are: H. duartei caldarum from Pogos de Caldas; H. raddiana joaquini from the highest and most southern part of the state of Santa Catarina; and H. rubra orientalis from the Atlantic coastal area of Brazil.Item Prolapsus, A Large Sciuravid Rodent: And New Eomyids From the Late Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991-09) Wilson, John Andrew; Runkel, Anthony C.The questionably hystricognathous and hystricomorphous rodent Prolapsus is assigned, on the basis of its dental characters, to the Family Sciuravidae. The complete dentition of Prolapsus sibilamoris is now known but P. junctionis is still represented by isolated teeth only. Prolapsus sp. of Wood(1973) is now identified as a species of Pauronys. Prolapsus is found in the early Uintan Whistler Squat local fauna and late Uintan Serendipity local fauna at several localities in Trans-Pecos Texas and is closely related to a new emoyid genus, Aguafriamys, here described, that occurs in sediments of Duchesnean age in the same area. If Prolapsus is interpreted as being truly hystricognathous it follows that this character has evolved more than once. A new species of Yoderimys is described from the Coffee Cup local fauna Chadronian age.Item Redescription of Schizomus crassicaudatus (Pickard-Cambridge) and Diagnoses of Hubbardia cook, Stenochrus chamberlin, and Sotanostenochrus new genus, with Description of a New Species of Hubbardia from California (Arachnida: Schizomida: Hubbardiidae)(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1991-02) Reddell, James R.; Cokendolpher, James C.Schizomus crassicaudatus from Sri Lanka is redescribed from the type series, and lectotypes of Nyctalops crassicaudata and N. Tenuicaudata are designed. Hubbardia Cook, previously considered a synonym of Schizomus Cook, is considered valid and rediagnosed to include species from California and Arizona. The family Hubbardiidae Cook has priority and therefore is used rather than Schizomidae Hansen and Sorensen. Additional descriptive notes and records are provided and a lectotypes is designated for Hubbardia pentapeltis Cook. Hubbardia idria new species is described from San Benito County, California. Additional records are included for H. briggsi. A key for identification of males of Hubbardia is presented. The native (introduced elsewhere) North and Central American genus Stenochrus Chamberlin is rediagnosed for most species of the Schizomus mexicanus, pecki, and goodnightorum groups. Sotanostenochrus, new genus, is described for Schizomus mitchelli Rowland, and Schizomus cookei Rowland and is known only from caves in San Luis Potosi and Tamaulipas, Mexico.Item Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) From the Hannold Hill Formation, Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989-01) Spencer G., LucasSpeciments of the large extinct pantodont Coryphodon from the Hannold Hill Formation, Brewster County, Texas belong to single species, Coryphodon molestus. A sample of Coryphodon molestus from one locality in the Hannold Hill Formations consists of three adults and at least one juvenille. The sample aids in documenting sexual dimorphism in Coryphodon molestus and provides circumstantial evidence of gregarious behavior in that species. The presence of Coyphodon molestus in the Hannold Hill Formation indicates a late Gray Bull through Lost Cabin (Wasatchian) age. This is consistent with assignment of a late Gray Bull or Lysite age to the entire Hannold Hill vertebrate fauna.Item A Mid-Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Herpetofauna From a Cave in South Central Texas(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987-03) Holman, J. Alan; Winkler, Alisa J.At least 24 species of amphibians and reptiles are identified from the mid-Pleistocene Fyllan Cave Fauna. Travis County, Texas. This is the largest mid-Pleistocene herpetofauna known from the Texas, and one of the largest mid-Pleistocene herpetofaunas known from the United States. Only the large terrestrial tortoise represent an extinct species, but three extralimital forms indicate that winters in the area were milder than they are today. The fossils appear to have been subjected to considerable post-mortem- transportItem Carrolla craddocki: A New Genus and Species of Microsaur from the Lower Permian of Texas(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1986-04) Langston Jr., Wann; Olson, E.C.The specimen, comprising a skull and jaws, is assigned to the suborder Microbrachomorpha and tentatively to the family Brachystelechidae on the basis of the structure of the temporal and occipital regions. It is unique among known microsaurs in the possession of marginal teeth with long slender hollow bases and bifurcated crowns and the apparent absence of palatal dentition. Carrolla craddocki, new genus and species, from Lower Permian (Wolfcampian) Belle Plains Formation in Archer County, Texas, is described and figured. If correctly assigned to the Brachystelechidae, Carrolla is the first record of the family in North America, but it was probably not equivalent ecologically to the roughly contemporaneous Brachystelechus of Europe. Carrolla is believed to have been a burrower in hard soils. Its diet may have comprised soft-bodied subterranean invertebrates, but the functional significance which developed cryptic behavior under competitive pressures from surface dwelling reptiles in an increasingly harsh Early Permian environment in North America.Item Evolution of the Genus Holmesina (Pampatheriidae, Mammalia) in Florida, with Remarks on Taxonomy and Distribution(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1983-05) Edmund, A. GordonA large series of specimens of pampatheres has been found in Florida, covering approximately two million years from their emigration from South America to their late Pleistocene extinction. During this period, there was little morphological change, although the limb bones elongated by about 50%. The area of individual osteoderms, which is indicative of the surface area of the animal, increased, as expected, by the square of that amount, i.e. 2.2 times.Item A Checklist and Bibliography of the Iapygoidea (Insecta: Diplura) of South America(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-09) Reddell, James R.Complete records, synonymies, and bibliographic citations are given for the 61 species and seven varieties of iapygoid diplurans described from South America. Also included are all published records for species determined only to the generic level. The South American fauna includes representatives of the families lapygidae, Dinjapygidae, and Parajapygidae. The original spellings of the genus Iapyx and the family-group name Iapygidae are used in preference to Japyx and Japygidae to comply with the Rule of Priority. Typhlolabia Scudder is resurrected to include the following species previously included in Teljapyx Silvestri: T. bidentatus (Schaffer), T. costala (Gonzalez and Smith), T. hirsuta (Gonzalez and Smith), T. larva (Philippi) (type-species), T. megalocera (Silvestri), T. profunda (Smith), T. riestrae (Silvestri), and T. talcae (Smith).