Where: Culberson County, Texas (31.2° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 104.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• material from the middle of three layers (Layer 2); 1 and 3 are barren of fossils
•Layer 2 is "approximately 20 cm thick"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; yellow limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
• sediments "in excess of 1,000 pounds" were screenwashed
Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and F. B. Stangl, Jr. 1984. Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:432-455 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74473: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•abundances are given only for the Pleistocene occurrences
unclassified | |
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Mammalia | |
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Myotis lucifugus Le Conte 1831 vesper bat
Myotis velifer Allen 1890 cave myotis | |
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew
Sorex vagrans Baird 1858 long-tailed shrew | |
"Felis rufa" = Lynx rufus
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Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869 peccary | |
Capromeryx cf. furcifer Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Sylvilagus audubonii Baird 1858 desert cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
Peromyscus difficilis, Peromyscus boylii, Peromyscus maniculatus, Peromyscus pectoralis, Peromyscus eremicus, Peromyscus leucopus, Reithrodontomys montanus, Reithrodontomys megalotis, Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Sigmodon hispidus, Microtus mexicanus, Neotoma micropus, Neotoma mexicana, Neotoma albigula, Onychomys leucogaster, Onychomys torridus
Peromyscus difficilis Allen 1891 deer mouse
Peromyscus boylii Baird 1855 brush mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus Wagner 1843 deer mouse
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904 white-ankled mouse
Peromyscus eremicus Baird 1858 deer mouse
Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque 1818 white-footed mouse
Reithrodontomys montanus Baird 1855 plains harvest mouse
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Reithrodontomys fulvescens Allen 1894 fulvous harvest mouse
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat
Microtus mexicanus Saussure 1861 Mexican vole
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855 southern plains woodrat
Neotoma mexicana Baird 1855 Mexican woodrat
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat
Onychomys leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Onychomys torridus Coues 1874 grasshopper mouse | |
"Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus, Dipodomys merriami, Dipodomys ordii, Dipodomys spectabilis, Perognathus sp., Perognathus flavus
"Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus Baird 1858 hispid pocket mouse plus "many maxillaries"
Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890 Merriam's kangaroo rat
Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse 1853 Ord's kangaroo rat
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam 1890 bannertail kangaroo rat
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839 pocket mouse | |
"Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops, Thomomys bottae
"Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops Baird 1852 yellow-faced pocket gopher
Thomomys bottae Eydoux and Gervais 1836 Botta's pocket gopher | |
"Eutamias cinereicollis" = Neotamias cinereicollis, Spermophilus spilosoma, "Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus, Marmota flaviventris, Cynomys ludovicianus
"Eutamias cinereicollis" = Neotamias cinereicollis Allen 1890 chipmunk originally entered as "Eutamias cinericollis"
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833 spotted ground squirrel
Marmota flaviventris Audubon and Bachman 1841 yellow-bellied marmot
Cynomys ludovicianus Ord 1815 black-tailed prairie dog | |
Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
Gastropoda | |
Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801 amber snail | |
Pupoides albilabris slug | |
Gastrocopta pentodon slug
Gastrocopta armifera slug | |