Papago Springs Cave (Section 1 Unit 3) (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 20444: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• section 1 is thought to show original superposition, and units 3 through 6 are capped by unit 2, which is dated at < 103 +/- 8 ka (230Th); therefore, the four lower units are probably Sangamonian or older
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Stockoceros onusrosagris Roosevelt and Burden 1934 pronghorn | |
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel | |
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Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Neotoma cf. mexicana Baird 1855 Mexican woodrat
Neotoma cf. albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat | |
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Ambystoma cf. tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander | |