Jimenez Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817
Spermophilus variegatus (Erxleben 1777)
recombined as Otospermophilus variegatus
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys cf. umbrinus (Richardson 1829)
Pappogeomys castanops (Baird 1852)
recombined as Cratogeomys castanops
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841
"D. nelsoni or D. spectabilis"
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825
Neotoma ? micropus Baird 1855
Neotoma ? cinerea (Ord 1815)
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894
Neotoma identifications repeated from Harris 1984
Neotoma cf. floridana (Ord 1818)
Neotoma lepida Thomas 1893
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874
"R. megalotis or R. montanus"
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858
Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord 1815)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hesperomyidae
Baiomys taylori (Thomas 1887)
original and current combination Hesperomys taylori
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817
said to be a new genus also present at Dry Cave and Anthony Cave
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird 1858)
originally entered as "Sylvilagus audobonii"
Mammalia - Soricidae
Cryptotis parva (Say 1823)
Notiosorex crawfordi (Coues 1877)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Antrozous pallidus (Le Conte 1856)
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae
Tadarida sp. Rafinesque 1814
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902
Antilocapra americana (Ord 1815)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Puma concolor (Linnaeus 1771)
"Felis concolor"
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela nigripes (Audubon and Bachman 1851)
original and current combination Putorius nigripes
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis latrans Say 1823
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Chihuahua
Coordinates: 27.0° North, 104.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:27.0° North, 104.8° West
Time
Period:Quaternary
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:cave
Geology comments: "extremely fine sand... aeolian or water-deposited"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:coprolite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),sieve
Metadata
Also known as:UTEP Locality 91
Database number:71263
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy
Created:1999-02-05 16:57:53 Last modified:2009-07-15 18:33:58
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-05 16:57:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24053. H. J. Messing. 1986. A Late Pleistocene-Holocene fauna from Chihuahua, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):277-288 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]