A COLLECTION OF PLEISTOCENE VERTEBRATES 

 FROM SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS 



By Oliver P. Hay 



Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Wasliinyton. 



In August, 1925, Dr. Mark Francis, of College Station, Texas, 

 sent the writer a small collection of fossil teeth and bones which 

 he had collected near the west bank of Aransas River, in San Patricio 

 County. The locality is described as being about 1 mile north of 

 the bridge on which the St. Louis & Brownsville Railroad crosses 

 the Aransas. It is also about 20 miles southwest of Refugio. Nearer 

 is a town named Sinton, and for convenience the collection will be 

 spoken of as from Sinton. Doctor Francis wrote that the fossils 

 were found in a deposit of sand at a height of about 4 feet above 

 the average water level. Credit is due to Frank Low, of Refugio, 

 for notifying Doctor Francis of the discovery of these fossils. 



The following animals have been identified : 



Atractosteus tristocchusf 



Test lido, species indeterminable. 



Alligator niississippiensis. 



Megatherium mira biJe. 



Clilamytheriitm septentrionale. 



Glyptndon pctalifcrns. 



Equus complieatus. 



E. Hit oralis? 



Camelops ai-ansas, new species. 



Bison, species indeterminable. 



Odoeoileus, species indeterminable. 



Mammut americamim. 



Elephas eoliimbi. 



Ananeus orarius, new species. 



A. defloccatiis, new species. 



Xeorhocriis pincknei/i, new genus. 



A large garfish {.[t/acfosfeus ti /Hfoechus?) is represented by sev- 

 eral scales. 



The genus Tcstudo is represented by a part of a costal plate, ap- 

 parently the eighth, a part of a scapula, and the head of a femur. 

 It was a large species, inasmuch as the costal plate measures 80 mm. 

 along tlie sulcus separating the neural scute from the costal scute. 



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