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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Trans-Pecos Texas: Ceratomorpha Less Amynodontidae
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1984-12-07)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 ... -
Butterflies from the Middle Eocene: The Earliest Occurrence of Fossil Papilionoidea (Lepidoptera)
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1978)Three 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. ... -
New Brazilian Forms of Hyla
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1968-04)The 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. ... -
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)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. ... -
Coryphodon (Mammalia, Pantodonta) From the Hannold Hill Formation, Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1989-01)Speciments 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 ... -
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)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, ... -
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)A 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 ... -
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)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 ... -
A Mid-Pleistocene (Irvingtonian) Herpetofauna From a Cave in South Central Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987-03)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 ... -
A Checklist and Bibliography of the Iapygoidea (Insecta: Diplura) of South America
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-09)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 ... -
Paleoecological Implications of a Holocene Fossil Assemblage: Lower Rio Grande, Cameron County, Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-08)A Late Holocene fossil site from extreme southern Texas consists of invertebrate remains dominated by terrestrial, freshwater and brackish water mollusks. Sparse plant remains were recovered. Analysis of the origin of this ... -
A Checklist and Bibliography of the Japygoidea (Insecta: Diplura) of North America, Central America, and the West Indies
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1983-04)The japygoid fauna of North America, Central America, and the West Indies includes one fossil and 103 extant species and four "varieties." Complete synonymies, bibliographic citations, and records are included for all ... -
The Armor of Fossil Giant Armadillos (Pampatheriidae, Xenarthra, Mammalia)
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1985-06)Fossil giant armadillos are protected by armor consisting of about 800 osteoderms covering the body, head, tail, legs and feet. The body armor is composed of an anterior (pectoral) buckler and a posterior (pelvic) buckler, ... -
Mammals of the Coffee Ranch Local Fauna Hemphilian of Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1983-09)The Coffee Ranch local fauna is the type of the Hemphillian Land Mammal Age. Fossils from the Coffee Ranch quarry have been known since 1930 and have been the basis for numerous publications, but no complete account of the ... -
Occurrence of Exotic Fishes in Texas Waters
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982-12)Many of the fishes currently inhabiting Texas freshwaters are not native to that location. This influx of exotic fishes is equivalent to about 20 percent of the original freshwater fish fauna. -
Fossil Mammals from the Lower Buck Hill Group, Eocene of Trans-Pecos Texas: Marsupicarnivora, Primates, Taeniodonta, Condylarthra, Bunodont Artiodactyla, and Dinocerata
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982-10)Two assemblages of fossil mammals from the lower part of the Eocene Buck Hill Group, Brewster County, Texas, contain two species of marsupials, five of primates, two of condylarths, one taeniodont, six of bunodont artiodactyls, ... -
First Cretaceous Specimens of the Beryciform Fish Hoplopteryx from North America and their Bearing on Acanthopterygian Evolution
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1982-05)Hoplopteryx lewesiensis (Beryciformes: Trachichthyidae) is reported from North America for the first time. More than a dozen individuals, including several complete fishes, expand the geographic range of this Late Cretaceous ... -
Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Trans-Pecos Texas: Amynodontidae
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1981-06)Skulls, lower jaws and limb bones, identified as Amynodon advenus, were recovered from a quarry and from other localities at the same stratigraphic level in deposits of early Uintan age that contain the Whistler Squat local ... -
Late Hemphilian Mammals of the Ocote Local Fauna, Guanajuato, Mexico
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1980-02)The Ocote local fauna is described from several thousand fossils, mostly isolated teeth, of large mammals, obtained from sediments near the village of Los Rodriguez, District of San Miguel de Allende, northeast of the city ... -
Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Big Bend Area Trans-Pecos Texas: Simidectes (Mammalia insectivora)
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1979)Several specimens from the Buck Hill Group, Agua Fria area, Texas, represent Simidectes magnus, a species previously reported only from the Uinta Formation of Utah. Statistics of known specimens of Simidectes are inadequate ...