Catclaw Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Mohave County, Arizona (35.8° N, 114.7° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 114.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "[bighorn jaw] was found in a packrat nest on the consolidated bench in the rear of the cave... appears to have weathered out of an older stratum or to have been removed from such."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; fine-grained siltstone

• "fine wind-blown silt"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr. Emil W. Haury, University of Arizona; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: C. W. Hibbard and B. A. Wright. 1956. A New Pleistocene bighorn sheep from Arizona. Journal of Mammalogy 37(1):105-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74176: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.07.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
"Ovis catclawensis n. sp." = Ovis canadensis
"Ovis catclawensis n. sp." = Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804 bighorn sheep