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 4
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 63570: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 16.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Synaptomys cooperi, Neotoma sp., Peromyscus sp., Phenacomys sp., Microtus sp., Microtus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew | |
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
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Dasypus cf. bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo |