Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.4° N, 114.6° W: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 114.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• two mid-Holocene radiocarbon dates on bear bones are rejected by Emslie and Czaplewski (1985) and the cave is believed to have been "sealed since at least the close of the Pleistocene"; Emslie and Mead (2020) report uncorrected 14C date for Ursus from BC-1 of 22,321+/-110 and calibrated range in calendar years BP of 27,011–26,217

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. D. Emslie in 1982; reposited in the LACM

Collection methods: surface (float),

• bones were surface collected in place and not excavated, and are thought to have "eroded from [nearby] deposits relatively recently"

Primary reference: S. D. Emslie and N. J. Czaplewski. 1985. A new record of giant short-faced bear, Arctodus simus, from western North America with a re-evaluation of its paleobiology. Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 371:1-12 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93278: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.01.2010

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