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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, ... -
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. ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A Dasyleptid from the Permian of Kansas, Lepidodasypus Sharovi N. Gen., N. SP. (Insecta: Thysanura: Monura)
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1975-05)Lepidodasypus sharovi n. gen., n. sp. is distinguished from previously described species of Dasyleptus by the fine vestiture of scales and hairs, by the heavier pigmentation of the tergites, and by the shorter first maxillary ... -
Development of Terminal Buds in Pinyon Pine and Douglas-Fir Trees
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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas Big Bend Area Trans-Pecos Texas: Brontotheriidae
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977-01)A new larger species of Sthenodectes is based on two well preserved skulls and other material from the late Bridgerian or early Uintan (middle or late Eocene) of the Agua Fria area in Trans-Pecos Texas. Menodus bakeri ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group, Trans-Pecos Texas: Entelontidae
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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group, Trans-Pecos Texas: Equidae
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Early Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas, Vieja Group, Trans-Pecos Texas: Insectivora
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Eocene Rodents, Pruett Formation, Southwest Texas; Their Pertinence to the Origin of the South African Caviomorpha
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1973-11)The rodents from three localities in the Pruett Formation of the Buck Hill Volcanic Group from the Big Bend region of Texas are described. Included are the paramyids Thishemys plicatus, Microparamys minutus, Lophiparamys ... -
Ethnic Identities of Extinct Coahuiltecan Populations: Case of the Juanca Indians
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1977-02)The name Juanca is presented for future use as a modern standardized name for a Coahuilteco-speaking, hunting-and-gathering Indian group recorded in Spanish documents as living on the South Texas Plain in the late seventeenth ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Fossil Bears from Texas
(Texas Memorial Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, 1963-03)
