PBDB Collection

Little Beaver Cave - A2-L1 collection (Pleistocene to of the United States)

Where: Phelps County, Missouri (37.6° N, 91.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Cave sediments; A2 collection derived from test excavation (90 x 60 cm unit) excavated to depth of 44cm, in five stratigraphic levels; this collection is derived from level 1

Environment/lithology: terrestrial

• Specimens derived from sediments within Little Beaver Cave; Cave is "formed in uppermost portion of the Gasconade Formation, a dolomitic Ordovician unit." (p. 152)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float),

• Specimens are curated at the Illinois State Museum

Primary reference: B. W. Schubert. 2003. A late Pleistocene and early Holocene mammalian fauna from Little Beaver Cave, Central Ozarks, Missouri. Pp. 149-200 in Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America (B. W. Schubert, J. I. Mead, and R. W. Graham, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63565: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 16.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae	Myotis sp., cf. Eptesicus fuscus, Pipistrellus sp. Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat cf. Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat Pipistrellus sp. Kaup 1829 pipistrelle bat
Cingulata - Dasypodidae	Dasypus cf. bellus Dasypus cf. bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo See also Schubert and Graham (2000)
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Sylvilagus sp. Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Rodentia - Geomyidae	Geomys sp. Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Microtus sp., Microtus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Microtus cf. pennsylvanicus, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Synaptomys cooperi, Peromyscus sp., Neotoma sp., Neotoma cf. floridana Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole "Microtus ochrogaster or M. pinetorum" Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole Microtus cf. pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Rodentia - Sciuridae	Spermophilus sp., Tamias cf. striatus, Marmota sp., cf. Sciurus sp. Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel "Spermophilus (Ictidomys) sp." Tamias cf. striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk Marmota sp. Frisch 1775 marmot cf. Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
Rodentia - Erethizontidae	Erethizon dorsatum Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Cryptotis parva, Blarina sp., Blarina sp., Blarina cf. brevicauda Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew "Blarina brevicauda or B. hylophaga" Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew Blarina cf. brevicauda Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew
Soricomorpha - Talpidae	Scalopus aquaticus Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole
Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae	Tayassuidae indet. Tayassuidae indet. Palmer 1897 peccary "Mylohyus nasutus or Platygonus compressus"
Artiodactyla - Cervidae	Odocoileus sp. Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer "Odocoileus virginiana or O. hemionus"
Carnivora - Procyonidae	Procyon lotor Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
Carnivora - Mephitidae	Mephitis mephitis Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk