SAM Cave (Pink Solid): Irvingtonian, New Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Lemmiscus curtatus (Cope 1868)
Mictomys kansasensis (Hibbard 1952)
Peromyscus cf. crinitus (Merriam 1891)
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Spermophilus variegatus (Erxleben 1777)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis rufus Audubon and Bachman 1851
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mammalia - Soricidae
Mammalia - Chiroptera
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779
a bat
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Rio Arriba
Coordinates: 36.5° North, 107.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 106.7° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Irvingtonian
Age range of interval: 1.4 - 0.21 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:said to be younger than Under Arch and older than the LB collections, but direct stratigraphic superposition is not indicated
NISP cannot be determined because specimens are listed as "many teeth" for all common species
said to be early Pleistocene
Metadata
Also known as:NMMNH L-43
Database number:20506
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2002-05-15 00:00:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2002-05-15 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
2940. K. L. Rogers, C. A. Repenning, F. G. Luiszer and R. D. Benson. 2000. Geologic history, stratigraphy, and paleontology of SAM Cave, north-central New Mexico. New Mexico Geology 22(4):89-117 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]