Where: Culberson County, Texas (31.9° N, 104.9° W: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 104.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The top three feet of deposit had been thoroughly dug away except in small areas" and apart from certain Pleistocene taxa (see collection 93257) the stratigraphic position of the fauna is unclear and may include both Pleistocene and Holocene material

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; rubbly siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Y. Ayer, R. G. L. Ayer, W. Beal in 1935; reposited in the ANSP

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection

•most of the archaeological material including three "Heuco Cave Dweller" burials was removed in 1934 from "18 inches below the surface," followed by the faunal material in 1935 from depths of up to seven feet

•collectors include "Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. L. Ayer," presumable meaning Ayer and her husband

Primary reference: M. Y. Ayer. 1936. The archaeological and faunal material from Williams Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, Texas. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 88:599-618 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93258: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 10.01.2010

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