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 5
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 63571: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 16.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
cf. Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
cf. Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel | |
Synaptomys cooperi, Neotoma sp., Peromyscus sp., Microtus sp., Microtus cf. xanthognathus, Microtus pennsylvanicus, "Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes, Phenacomys sp.
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus cf. xanthognathus Leach 1815 taiga vole
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
"Clethrionomys sp." = Myodes Pallas 1811 vole
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Blarina sp. Gray 1838 American short-tailed shrew | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
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