PBDB Collection

Little Beaver Cave - A1-L2 collection (Pleistocene to of the United States)

Where: Phelps County, Missouri (37.6° N, 91.8° W: paleocoordinates 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; A1 collection derived from test excavation (80 x 90 cm unit) excavated to depth of 18cm, in three stratigraphic levels; this collection is for level 2

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 63566: 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 Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat cf. Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Sylvilagus sp. Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Synaptomys cooperi, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus sp., Microtus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Microtus cf. xanthognathus, Neotoma sp., Neotoma cf. floridana, Peromyscus sp. Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole "Microtus ochrogaster or M. pinetorum" Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole Microtus cf. xanthognathus Leach 1815 taiga vole Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Rodentia - Zapodidae	Zapus sp. Zapus sp. Coues 1876 jumping mouse
Rodentia - Geomyidae	Geomys sp. Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
Rodentia - Sciuridae	Tamiasciurus sp., Tamias striatus, Tamias cf. striatus, Spermophilus sp., Marmota sp. Tamiasciurus sp. Trouessart 1880 squirrel Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk Tamias cf. striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel "Spermophilus (Ictidomys) sp." Marmota sp. Frisch 1775 marmot
Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae	Platygonus compressus Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary
Soricomorpha - Talpidae	Scalopus aquaticus Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Blarina sp., Blarina sp., Cryptotis parva, Sorex sp. Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew "Blarina brevicauda or B. hylophaga" Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew