The Caroline Street Local Fauna and the Genesis of the Associated Late Pleistocene Beaumont Formation in the City of Houston, Harris County, Texas

Although mammals of Paleocene age are well known from Alberta, their record is largely restricted to one lithological unit, the Paskapoo Formation (a record that includes mammals from the Cochrane area erroneously attributed to the Porcupine Hills Formation). We report here the first occurrence of Paleocene mammals from the Porcupine Hills Formation at exposures near the western edge of the city of Calgary. The assemblage, termed the Bearspaw local fauna, documents a diversity of multituberculate and eutherian mammals, including new species of the pentacodontid Aphronorus bearspawensis sp. nov., the mixodectid Eudaemonema bohachae sp. nov., the hyopsodontid Promioclaenus thnetus sp. nov., and a new genus and species of multituberculate (Alopocosmodon hadrus gen. et sp. nov.) tentatively referred to the Microcosmodontidae. The Bearspaw local fauna also details the first Canadian occurrences of several taxa, including Ptilodus wyomingensis, Aphronorus fraudator, Bryanictis microlestes, Elpidophorus minor, and possibly Goniacodon. Preliminary biostratigraphic analyses suggest that the Bearspaw local fauna is middle Torrejonian (To2) in age, correlating most closely with near-coeval Gidley Quarry of Montana and Rock Bench Quarry of Wyoming. In addition to improving the depauperate record of Torrejonian mammals in western Canada, the new fauna is important in documenting a mammal assemblage from a lithological unit that is thought to have been deposited in semi-arid conditions, rather than the wetter and more humid conditions of the Paskapoo Formation. Further, the Bearspaw localities, along with several other recently discovered localities in the Calgary and Cochrane areas, closely bracket the 27n–26r chron boundary and as such will be important in detailing the Torrejonian–Tiffanian transition in western Canada.

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Late Pleistocene vertebrates from downtown San Francisco, California

Journal of Paleontology ◽

10.1017/s0022336000025385 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 67 (6) ◽

pp. 1058-1063 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Peter U. Rodda ◽

Nina Baghai

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

San Francisco Bay ◽

The West ◽

Terrestrial Vertebrates ◽

Sandy Clay ◽

Geologic Setting ◽

The City

Disarticulated elements from three individuals of Mammuthus cf. M. columbi (Falconer) and one individual of Bison cf. B. latifrons (Harlan) were recovered from an excavation in gravelly, sandy clay of the Colma Formation at the southeast base of Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, California. This is the most abundant collection of late Pleistocene terrestrial vertebrates reported from San Francisco, and only the fourth record from excavations in the city proper. The Mammuthus-Bison association indicates a Rancholabrean age, and elements of these two taxa from this site have been radiocarbon dated at 25,380 ± 1,100 years B.P. Geologic setting, lithology, associated diatoms and pollen, and preservation of the bones suggest that these animals were buried rapidly in a boggy environment on the west margin of the broad valley now occupied by San Francisco Bay.

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Which species of small mammals tolerate highly urbanized areas – the study in Warsaw agglomeration and surroundings

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae ◽

10.21697/seb.2017.15.4.01 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 15 (4) ◽

pp. 5-13

Author(s):

Grzegorz Lesiński ◽

Jakub Gryz ◽

Dagny Krauze-Gryz

Keyword(s):

Small Mammals ◽

City Centre ◽

Local Fauna ◽

Tawny Owl ◽

Arvicola Amphibius ◽

Terrestrial Mammals ◽

Reverse Pattern ◽

Mustela Nivalis ◽

The City ◽

Neomys Fodiens

The degree of penetration of urban habitats by small terrestrial mammals was studied in Warsaw agglomeration and in adjacent areas up to 50 km from the city centre. Study material consisted of pellets of the tawny owl Strix aluco collected in 85 sites, which contained 15,152 remains of individuals of small mammals. The species that penetrated city agglomeration most intensively were: Apodemus agrarius, Mus musculus, Talpa europaea, Rattus norvegicus and Microtus subterraneus. Most central sites of these species were situated 1.3–2.3 km from the city centre. Microtus agrestis, Mustela nivalis, Arvicola amphibius, Neomys fodiens, Muscardinus avellanarius and Sicista betulina showed the lowest degree of penetration of an urban agglomeration (sites closest to the city centre: 8.2, 8.6, 8.6, 11.2, 17.8 and 20.2 km, respectively). Species, whose share among the owls’ prey decreased most with the distance from the city centre, were: A. agrarius and T. europaea. The reverse pattern was found for M. agrestis and M. avellanarius. Small terrestrial mammals are sensitive to the proceeding urbanization and the central part of Warsaw agglomeration is penetrated by only 1/3 of species of the local fauna.

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The Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Viko vijin Local Fauna from La Mixteca Alta, northwestern Oaxaca, southern Mexico

Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia ◽

10.4072/rbp.2011.1.02 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 15-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo ◽

Rosalía Guerrero-Arenas ◽

Bruce MacFadden ◽

Lucía Cabrera-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Local Fauna ◽

Southern Mexico ◽

Mixteca Alta

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Late Pleistocene soft-sediment deformation structure interpreted as seismites in paralic deposits in the City of Bari (Apulian Foreland, southern Italy)

Ancient seismites ◽

10.1130/0-8137-2359-0.75 ◽

2002 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Massimo Moretti ◽

Piero Pieri ◽

Marcello Tropeano

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Southern Italy ◽

Soft Sediment ◽

Deformation Structure ◽

Sediment Deformation ◽

Soft Sediment Deformation ◽

The City

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Introduction

Community Resilience ◽

10.1093/oso/9780197559383.003.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-4

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

United States ◽

Southern United States ◽

Harris County ◽

Surrounding Area ◽

Industrial Accidents ◽

Impact Of Climate Change ◽

The World ◽

The City

Harris County, Texas, the site of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF’s) fourth annual Sharing Knowledge conference in 2019, has been tested. Hurricane Harvey, the catastrophic storm that struck just over 18 months earlier, was one of the worst weather-related events ever faced by the city of Houston and its surrounding area, and the continuing impact of climate change suggests it will not be the last. The city’s 2.3 million residents have also dealt with industrial accidents, borne the brunt of devastating floods, and provided refuge to people fleeing other disaster areas in the southern United States and to immigrants from around the world....

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An early Pleistocene record of a giant koala (Phascolarctidae: Marsupialia) from western Victoria.

Australian Mammalogy ◽

10.1071/am05221 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 221 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

KJ Piper

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

New South ◽

South Australia ◽

Early Pleistocene ◽

Local Fauna ◽

Phascolarctos Cinereus ◽

Early Pliocene ◽

South Wales ◽

Cast Doubt ◽

Western Victoria

THE pre Holocene-Late Pleistocene record of Phascolarctos in Australia is extremely meagre. There are at least two, possibly three extinct species of Phascolarctos in addition to the extant Phascolarctos cinereus (Black 1999). P. yorkensis (syn. Cundokoala yorkensis; Black and Archer 1997) is known from the Early Pliocene Curramulka Local Fauna, South Australia (SA), and the Late Pleistocene Wellington Caves Local Fauna, New South Wales (Archer et al. 1997; Pledge 1992). P. stirtoni occurs in the Late Pleistocene Cement Mills Local Fauna, Queensland, and is known only from a partial maxilla containing P3-M2 (Bartholomai 1968, 1977). Phascolarctos material from the mid- Pleistocene Victoria Fossil Cave and Spring Cave, Naracoorte, SA, have also been referred to P. cf. stirtoni but remain undescribed (Reed and Bourne 2000; Moriarty et al. 2000). P. maris is known from a single lower molar from the Early Pliocene Sunlands Local Fauna, SA (Pledge 1987). Black (1999) cast doubt on its validity, suggesting its features may fall within the intraspecific variation of P. stirtoni. If P. maris is referable to P. stirtoni it is another South Australian instance of this species, and extends its range back to the Early Pliocene. The new phascolarctid material documented here is from the early Pleistocene Nelson Bay Local Fauna, Portland, Victoria (141o 35? E; 38o 36? S). It is therefore an important additional southern occurrence of a species larger than the living P. cinereus, and is the only pre- Late Pleistocene record of the Phascolarctidae in Victoria.

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