Cueva Blanca Zone F (Pleistocene of Mexico)

Where: Oaxaca, Mexico (17.0° N, 96.4° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 96.2° W)

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed/horizon: Zone F

Environment/lithology: cave

• "indurated sand"; charcoal in overlying Zone E was C14 dated at 10820 +- /120 ybp by Stuckenrath and Mielke 1970

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: K. V. Flannery. 1983. Pleistocene fauna of Early Ajuereado type from Cueva Blanca, Oaxaca. The Cloud People (Flannery and Marcus, eds.) 18-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 71305: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.02.1999

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Taxonomic list

• birds also present; list is partial and may omit several small mammal species
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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp.
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
possibly V. macrotis
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp.
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp., Sylvilagus sp.
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp.
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
multiple species
 Didelphimorphia - Didelphidae
Marmosa canescens
Marmosa canescens mouse opossum