Levi Site Zone I (Pleistocene of the United States)

Also known as University of Texas Site No. 41TV49

Where: Travis County, Texas (30.4° N, 98.1° W: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 98.1° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "The zone is 61 to 70 inches thick"; overlying Zone II is dated at 10,000 +/- 175 B.P. (radiocarbon on "snail and mussel shell")

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, yellow conglomerate

• "loose, grainy-textured, and light tan to yellow-tan... fragments from the shelter roof, ranging in size from small spalls to boulders"

Size class: macrofossils

• "A number of bones from this zone were burned and broken, probably by man."

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by H. L. Alexander, Jr. in 1950, 1960

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "All work was done by trowel, and fill was transferred by bucket to the screen... All material was passed through 1/4 inch screen, and much of it also was run through fine window screen."

Primary reference: H. L. Alexander, Jr. 1963. The Levi Site: a Paleo-Indian campsite in central Texas. American Antiquity 28(4):510-528 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 79581: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• identifications are by E. L. Lundelius, Jr.; MNI counts are given, but are of unclear value given probable disassociation of the remains
Reptilia
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 rattlesnake
Mammalia
 Carnivora - Mephitidae
Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk
 Carnivora - Canidae
Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827 bison
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir
 Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon hispidus, "Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat
"Pitymys pinetorum" = Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole