Papago Springs Cave (Section 1 Unit 4) (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 20445: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Galliformes - Phasianidae
Meleagris cf. crassipes Miller 1940 turkey
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher
"T. umbrinus/bottae"
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus cf. aberti Woodhouse 1853 squirrel
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Cricetidae indet. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
"Peromyscus/Reithrodontomys"
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Neotoma cf. mexicana Baird 1855 Mexican woodrat
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis thysanodes Miller 1897 vesper bat
a bat