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: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• "less than 1 ft deep at the western extremity but more than 16 inches deep at the eastern end"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; black siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
• "probably near 1,000 pounds" was 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 74474: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.08.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Bassariscus astutus Lichtenstein 1830 ringtail | |
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Odocoileus hemionus Rafinesque 1817 mule deer | |
"Dicotyles tajacu" = Pecari tajacu
"Dicotyles tajacu" = Pecari tajacu Linnaeus 1758 collared peccary | |
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew | |
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus, Ammospermophilus interpres
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel
Ammospermophilus interpres Merriam 1890 Texas antelope squirrel | |
Peromyscus leucopus, Peromyscus eremicus, Peromyscus maniculatus, Peromyscus pectoralis, Neotoma albigula, Neotoma micropus, Reithrodontomys montanus, Reithrodontomys megalotis, Onychomys torridus, Sigmodon hispidus
Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque 1818 white-footed mouse
Peromyscus eremicus Baird 1858 deer mouse
Peromyscus maniculatus Wagner 1843 deer mouse
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904 white-ankled mouse
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855 southern plains woodrat
Reithrodontomys montanus Baird 1855 plains harvest mouse
Reithrodontomys megalotis Baird 1858 western harvest mouse
Onychomys torridus Coues 1874 grasshopper mouse
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat | |
"Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus, Perognathus flavus, Dipodomys merriami, Dipodomys spectabilis, Dipodomys ordii
"Perognathus hispidus" = Chaetodipus hispidus Baird 1858 hispid pocket mouse
Perognathus flavus Baird 1855 pocket mouse
Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890 Merriam's kangaroo rat
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam 1890 bannertail kangaroo rat
Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse 1853 Ord's kangaroo rat | |
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 | |
Lepus californicus Gray 1837 black-tailed jackrabbit
Sylvilagus audubonii Baird 1858 desert cottontail | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 Mexican free-tailed bat | |
Pipistrellus hesperus Allen 1864 western pipistrelle
Myotis velifer Allen 1890 cave myotis
Antrozous pallidus Le Conte 1856 pallid bat | |
Mormoops megalophyla leaf-nosed bat |