North Texas Neogene Period References:


Pliocene Epoch (1.8 - 5.3 mya):
(Last updated 17 Aug 2010.)

A new doglike carnivore, genus Cynarctus, from the Clarendonian, Pliocene, of Texas E. Raymond Hall and Walter W. Dalquest University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History -- v. 14, no. 10, 1962
A new genus of Artiodactyla from the Clarendon lower Pliocene of Texas R. A. Stirton University of California press, 1932 / University of California publications. Bulletin of the Department of geological sciences. v. 21, no. 6
A Pliocene Vertebrate Fauna from Higgins, Lipscomb County, Texas C. J. Hesse Contributions to Geology, 1939
A review of the rhinoceroses with a description of Aphelops material from the Pliocene of Texas W. D. Matthew Berkeley, Calif. : University of California press, 1932 / Bulletin of the Department of geological sciences. v. 20, no. 12.
A survey of various late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas of the Panhandle of Texas C. Stuart Johnston and Donald E. Savage University of California publications in geological sciences, v. 31, no. 2, 1955
Camelidae from the Coffee Ranch Local Fauna (Hemphillian Age) of Texas Walter W. Dalquest Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Jan., 1980), pp. 109-117
Equidae from the Pliocene of Texas William D. Matthew and R. A. Stirton Berkeley: University of California Press, 1930
Giant Camels from the Cenozoic of North America * Jessica A. Harrison Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology - Number 57
Glyptodonts of North America * David D. Gillette, Clayton E. Ray Smithsonian Contributions to Paleontology, No. 40, 1981
Machaerodus catoccopis Cope from the Pliocene of Texas William Henry Burt Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931
Machaerodus catoccopis Cope from the Pliocene of Texas William Henry Burt University of California publications. Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences, v. 20, no. 7
Mammals of the Coffee Ranch local fauna Hemphillian of Texas W. W. Dalquest Texas Memorial Museum Pearce-Sellards Series 038, 41 p., 15 figs., 6 tables, 1983
Miocene and Pliocene artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain Thomas Hudson Patton Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences, v. 14, no. 2, 1969
On two species of Platygonus from the Pliocene of Texas * J. W. Gidley Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XIX, 1903
Pliocene carnivores of the Coffee Ranch (type Hemphill) local fauna W. W. Dalquest Texas Memorial Museum Bulletin 015, 44 p., 11 figs., 1 plate, 1 table, 1969
North American mammal ages:
Blancan age = 1.8 to 4.9 mya
Hemphillian age = 4.9 to 10.3 mya


Miocene Epoch references (5.3 - 23 mya):
(Last updated Aug 17, 2010.)

A new fossil tortoise from the Texas Miocene, with remarks on the probable geologic history of tortoises in Eastern U.S. by Walter Auffenberg Texas Memorial Museum, Pearce-Sellards Series 03, 11 p., 1964
A skull of Dinocyon from the Miocene of Texas * W. D. Matthew Bulletin American Museum of Natural History, Vol. XVI, 1902
A survey of various late Cenozoic vertebrate faunas of the Panhandle of Texas C. Stuart Johnston and Donald E. Savage University of California publications in geological sciences, v. 31, no. 2, 1955
Further study of Castolon local fauna (Early Miocene), Big Bend National Park, Texas M. S. Stevens Texas Memorial Museum, Pearce-Sellards Series 028, 1977
Giant Camels from the Cenozoic of North America * Jessica A. Harrison Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology - Number 57
Lower Jaw and Dentition of the Hemphillian Bear, Agriotherium (Ursidae), with the Description of a New Species Walter W. Dalquest Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 67, No. 4 (Nov. 1986), pp. 623-631
Miocene and Pliocene artiodactyls, Texas Gulf Coastal Plain Thomas Hudson Patton Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. Biological sciences, v. 14, no. 2, 1969
Miocene Equidae of the Texas Gulf Coastal Plain J. H. Quinn UT publications: PB5516, 102 p., 5 figs., 14 pls., 1955
New early Miocene formation and vertebrate local fauna, Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, Texas M. S. Stevens, J. B. Stevens, and M. R. Dawson Texas Memorial Museum, Pearce-Sellards Series 015, 53 p., 1969
New genus of tapir (Mammalia: Tapiridae) from the Arikareean (earliest Miocene) of the Texas Coastal Plain L. Barry Albright Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1998, Vol. 18 (No. 1):200–217
Recognition of Hipparions and Other Horses in the Middle Miocene Mammalian Faunas of the Texas Gulf Region J. H. Quinn Bereau of Economic geology, Report of Investigations 0014, 1952
Geology:
Depositional Patterns of Miocene Facies, Middle Texas Coastal Plain J. D. Doyle Bereau of Economic geology, Report of Investigations 0099
North American Mammal ages:
Blancan age = 1.8 to 4.9 mya
Hemphillian age = 4.9 to 10.3 mya
Clarendonian age = 10.3 to 13.6 mya
Barstovian age = 13.6 to 16.3 mya
Hemingfordian age = 16.3 to 20.6 mya
Arikareean age = 20.6 to 30.8 mya

Late Miocene = 5.3 to 11.6 mya
Middle Miocene = 11.6 to 15.9 mya
Early Miocene = 15.9 to 20 mya