Where: Culberson County, Texas (31.2° N, 104.2° W: paleocoordinates 31.2° N, 104.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• material from the middle of three layers (Layer 2); 1 and 3 are barren of fossils
•Layer 2 is "approximately 20 cm thick"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; yellow limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
• sediments "in excess of 1,000 pounds" were screenwashed
Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and F. B. Stangl, Jr. 1984. Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:432-455 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 74473: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
•abundances are given only for the Pleistocene occurrences
unclassified | |
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Mammalia | |
Sylvilagus audubonii Baird 1858 desert cottontail
Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
Reithrodontomys megalotis, Reithrodontomys montanus, Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Neotoma albigula, Neotoma mexicana, Neotoma micropus, Sigmodon hispidus, Onychomys torridus, Onychomys leucogaster, Microtus mexicanus, Peromyscus pectoralis, Peromyscus difficilis, Peromyscus eremicus, Peromyscus maniculatus, Peromyscus boylii, Peromyscus leucopus
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Reithrodontomys montanus Baird 1855 plains harvest mouse
Reithrodontomys fulvescens Allen 1894 fulvous harvest mouse
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat
Neotoma mexicana Baird 1855 Mexican woodrat
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855 southern plains woodrat
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat
Onychomys torridus Coues 1874 grasshopper mouse
Onychomys leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Microtus mexicanus Saussure 1861 Mexican vole
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904 white-ankled mouse
Peromyscus difficilis Allen 1891 deer mouse
Peromyscus eremicus Baird 1858 deer mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus Wagner 1843 deer mouse
Peromyscus boylii Baird 1855 brush mouse
Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque 1818 white-footed mouse | |
"Eutamias cinereicollis" = Neotamias cinereicollis, Cynomys ludovicianus, Marmota flaviventris, Spermophilus spilosoma, "Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus
"Eutamias cinereicollis" = Neotamias cinereicollis Allen 1890 chipmunk originally entered as "Eutamias cinericollis"
Cynomys ludovicianus Ord 1815 black-tailed prairie dog
Marmota flaviventris Audubon and Bachman 1841 yellow-bellied marmot
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833 spotted ground squirrel | |
Thomomys bottae, "Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops
Thomomys bottae Eydoux and Gervais 1836 Botta's pocket gopher
"Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops Baird 1852 yellow-faced pocket gopher | |
Dipodomys ordii, Dipodomys merriami, Dipodomys spectabilis, "Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus, Perognathus sp., Perognathus flavus
Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse 1853 Ord's kangaroo rat
Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890 Merriam's kangaroo rat
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam 1890 bannertail kangaroo rat
"Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus Baird 1858 hispid pocket mouse plus "many maxillaries"
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839 pocket mouse | |
Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
"Felis rufa" = Lynx rufus
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Capromeryx cf. furcifer Matthew 1902 pronghorn | |
Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869 peccary | |
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828 American water shrew
Sorex vagrans Baird 1858 long-tailed shrew
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew | |
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Myotis lucifugus Le Conte 1831 vesper bat
Myotis velifer Allen 1890 cave myotis | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastrocopta pentodon slug
Gastrocopta armifera slug | |
Pupoides albilabris slug | |
Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801 amber snail |