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Higgins Quarries (Neogene of the United States)

Also known as Sebits Ranch; Sibbet Ranch; Reed and Longnecker Locs. 124-A and 124-B4

Where: Lipscomb County, Texas (36.1° N, 100.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.4° N, 98.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hemphillian (10.3 - 4.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; poorly lithified, gray sandstone

• "gray, unconsolidated-to-cemented fluvial sand"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: G. E. Schultz. 1990. Stop 15: Early Hemphillian 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 95-103 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 18198: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 27.09.1993

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