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
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 | |
"Ovis catclawensis n. sp." = Ovis canadensis
"Ovis catclawensis n. sp." = Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804 bighorn sheep |