Also known as locality number 41PS25
Where: Presidio County, Texas (30.2° N, 104.6° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Direct 14C dating on the sloth dung
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: soft parts, coprolite
Collected by Schroeder in 2018-2022
Collection methods: hydrochloric,
• It is within these dry areas of the cave that archaeological perishable artifacts were discovered and analyzed (Schroeder 2018). During excavation for the Archaic archaeology by B.A. Schroeder (BAS), packrat middens and sloth dung were discovered. The cave was revisited in September 2019 to document the midden and sloth dung fossils presented here. Material housed at The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc., in its Mammoth Site Paleontology collections (MSP).
Primary reference: J. I. Mead, B. A. Schroeder, and C. L. Jost. 2021. Late Pleistocene Shasta ground sloth (Xenarthra) Dung, Diet, and environment from the Sierra Vieja, Presidio County, Texas. Texas Journal of Sciences 73(1):39-72 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235839: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 09.08.2024
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Angiospermae | |
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Celtis cf. reticulata hackberry | |
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Cyperaceae indet. Jussieu 1789 sedge | |
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Poaceae indet. Barnhart 1895 grass | |
| Commelina | |
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Commelina sp. Linnaeus 1753 dayflower | |
| Aristida | |
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cf. Aristida sp. Linnaeus 1753 | |
| Reptilia | |
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Gopherus sp. Rafinesque 1832 gopher tortoise a fragment of a right hypoplastron (MSP 33); the majority of a costal 3 (MSP 34); the majority of a keratinous scute for a pleural (MSP 35; radiocarbon dated); a fragment of a suprapygal 1 (MSP 36); a fragment of a suprapygal 2 (MSP 37); a right ulna missing both articular ends (MSP 38; not figured); and an ungual phalanx with a keratinous sheath (MSP 39).
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| Mammalia | |
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense
"Nothrotheriops shastensis" = Nothrotherium shastense Sinclair 1905 Shasta ground sloth | |