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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew | |
Tamias cf. striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk | |
Peromyscus sp., Phenacomys sp., Microtus sp., Microtus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Synaptomys cooperi, Neotoma sp.
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole
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 | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Pipistrellus sp. Kaup 1829 pipistrelle bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
cf. Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat |