Also known as Locus B = "upper portion of the talus cone within the upper grotto"
Where: Mohave County, Arizona (35.2° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 114.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• Fauna recovered from cave fill sediments; details of stratigraphy and level designations were provided by Geib and Keller (2002)
Environment/lithology: caveunlithified
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Screen mesh size reported by Geib and Keller (2002); materials for this collection were derived from disaggregated owl pellets; specimens are curated in the Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona (NAUQSP)
Primary reference: C. N. Jass. 2002. Preliminary taphonomic analyses of the mammalian microfauna. Pp. 179-190 in Bighorn Cave: Test Excavations of a Stratified Dry Shelter Mohave County, Arizona (P. R. Geib, and D. R. Keller, eds.). Bilby Research Center Occasional Papers 1 (Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona). [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63724: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 18.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat | |
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
cf. Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Antrozous pallidus Le Conte 1856 pallid bat | |
Tadarida sp. Rafinesque 1814 free-tailed bat
cf. Eumops perotis Schinz 1821 western mastiff bat | |
cf. Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat | |
Thomomys cf. bottae Eydoux and Gervais 1836 Botta's pocket gopher | |
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus, "cf. Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel
"cf. Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel | |
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Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Sylvilagus audubonii Baird 1858 desert cottontail | |
Bassariscus astutus Lichtenstein 1830 ringtail | |
Spilogale gracilis Merriam 1890 western spotted skunk | |
Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804 bighorn sheep | |
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew |