Little Beaver Cave - A2-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; A2 collection derived from test excavation (90 x 60 cm unit) excavated to depth of 44cm, in five stratigraphic levels; this collection is derived from 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 63568: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 16.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
 Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew
"Blarina brevicauda or B. hylophaga"
Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Tamias cf. striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
"Microtus ochrogaster or M. pinetorum"
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
 Rodentia - Geomyidae
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus sp. Kaup 1829 pipistrelle bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
cf. Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat