Cueva Blanca Zone F: Pleistocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
multiple species
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775
possibly V. macrotis
Mammalia - Didelphimorphia
Marmosa canescens
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Oaxaca
Coordinates: 17.0° North, 96.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:17.0° North, 96.2° West
Altitude:1813 meters
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Pleistocene
Age range of interval:2.58800 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: bed/horizon: Zone F
Lithology and environment
Environment:cave
Geology comments: "indurated sand"; charcoal in overlying Zone E was C14 dated at 10820 +- /120 ybp by Stuckenrath and Mielke 1970
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Taxonomic list comments:birds also present; list is partial and may omit several small mammal species
Metadata
Database number:71305
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Created:1999-02-13 20:51:52 Last modified:1999-02-13 22:51:52
Access level:the public Released:1999-02-13 20:51:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24118. K. V. Flannery. 1983. Pleistocene fauna of Early Ajuereado type from Cueva Blanca, Oaxaca. The Cloud People (Flannery and Marcus, eds.) 18-20 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]