Also known as Samwell Cave

Where: Shasta County, California (40.9° N, 122.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 122.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• the main deposit was "excavated, in places, to a depth of four feet, and in that thicknes shows six distinctly separated layers of clay, breccia and stalagmite"

•said to be Wisconsinan by Kurten and Anderson (1980)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; muddy breccia

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1903; reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: E. L. Furlong. 1904. An account of the preliminary excavations in a recently explored Quaternary cave in Shasta County, California. Science 20:53-55 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93250: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 09.01.2010

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