Little Beaver Cave - A2-L3 collection: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Missouri
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon lotor
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Mephitis mephitis
(Schreber 1776)
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scalopus aquaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Blarina sp.
Gray 1838
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Blarina cf. brevicauda
(Say 1823)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Synaptomys cooperi
Baird 1858
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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Microtus sp.
Schrank 1798
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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Microtus cf. xanthognathus
(Leach 1815)
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Phenacomys sp.
Merriam 1889
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Spermophilus sp.
Cuvier 1825
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Marmota sp.
Frisch 1775
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Mammalia
- Cingulata
- Dasypodidae
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Dasypus cf. bellus
(Simpson 1929)
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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cf. Eptesicus fuscus
(Beauvois 1796)
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Missouri | County: | Phelps |
| Coordinates: | 37.6° North, 91.8° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.6° North, 91.8° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map | ||||
| Altitude: | 260 meters | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Cave sediments; A2 collection derived from test excavation (90 x 60 cm unit) excavated to depth of 44cm, in five stratigraphic levels; this collection is derived from level 3 |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
| Geology comments: Specimens derived from sediments within Little Beaver Cave; Cave is "formed in uppermost portion of the Gasconade Formation, a dolomitic Ordovician unit." (p. 152) | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Abundance in sediment: | abundant |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),field collection | ||
| Minimum sieve size: | 0.700 | Maximum sieve size: | 0.700 |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collection method comments: Specimens are curated at the Illinois State Museum | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 63569 | ||
| Authorizer: | C. Bell | Enterer: | C. Bell | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2006-08-16 19:40:29 | Last modified: | 2006-08-16 22:40:29 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-16 19:40:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 18288. | B. W. Schubert. 2003. A late Pleistocene and early Holocene mammalian fauna from Little Beaver Cave, Central Ozarks, Missouri. Pp. 149-200 in Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America (B. W. Schubert, J. I. Mead, and R. W. Graham, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [C. Bell/C. Bell] |