Papago Springs Cave (Section 1 Unit 5) (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Santa Cruz County, Arizona (31.7° N, 110.8° W: paleocoordinates 31.8° N, 110.6° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

Primary reference: N. J. Czaplewski, J. I. Mead, C. J. Bell, W. D. Peachey, and T.-L. Ku. 1999. Papago Springs Cave revisited, part II: vertebrate paleofauna. Occasional Papers of the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History 5:1-41 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 20446: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Mammalia
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
"T. umbrinus/bottae"
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
"Peromyscus/Reithrodontomys"
Neotoma cf. mexicana Baird 1855 Mexican woodrat
Reptilia
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
Natricinae indet. Bonaparte 1838 colubrid snake
 Squamata - Viperidae
Viperidae indet. Oppel 1811 viper
Amphibia
 Salientia - Pelobatidae
Pelobatidae indet. Lataste 1879 spadefoot toad
"Scaphiopus/Spea"
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hylidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 tree frog
"Hyla/Pseudacris"
cf. Hyla sp. Laurenti 1768 tree frog
 Caudata - Urodela
Ambystoma cf. tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander