Fowlkes Cave (Pleistocene): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Glyphalini identata
subspecies paucilirata
Hawiia minuscula
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Gastrocoptidae
Gastrocopta pellicuda
subspecies hordeacella
Gastrocopta pentodon
Gastrocopta armifera
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Pupillidae
Pupoides albilabris
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Helicodiscidae
Helicodiscus singleyanus
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Succineidae
Succinea sp. Draparnaud 1801
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota flaviventris (Audubon and Bachman 1841)
5 specimens
Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord 1815)
1 specimen
Eutamias cinereicollis (Allen 1890)
1 specimen
recombined as Neotamias cinereicollis
originally entered as "Eutamias cinericollis"
Spermophilus variegatus (Erxleben 1777)
recombined as Otospermophilus variegatus
"isolated teeth"
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833
2 specimens
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
91 specimens
Pappogeomys castanops (Baird 1852)
8 specimens
recombined as Cratogeomys castanops
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890
14 specimens
Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse 1853
107 specimens
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam 1890
77 specimens
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839
3 specimens
Perognathus flavus Baird 1855
657 specimens
plus "many maxillaries"
Perognathus hispidus Baird 1858
117 specimens
recombined as Chaetodipus hispidus
plus "many maxillaries"
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825
234 specimens
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855
23 specimens
Neotoma mexicana Baird 1855
1 specimen
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894
33 specimens
Reithrodontomys fulvescens Allen 1894
2 specimens
Reithrodontomys montanus (Baird 1855)
19 specimens
Reithrodontomys megalotis (Baird 1858)
84 specimens
Peromyscus eremicus (Baird 1858)
55 specimens
Peromyscus difficilis (Allen 1891)
3 specimens
Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque 1818)
10 specimens
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904
6 specimens
Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner 1843)
16 specimens
Peromyscus boylii (Baird 1855)
22 specimens
Onychomys torridus (Coues 1874)
6 specimens
Onychomys leucogaster (Wied-Neuwied 1841)
183 specimens
Microtus mexicanus (Saussure 1861)
2 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus californicus Gray 1837
"several fragments"
Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird 1858)
2 specimens
Sylvilagus floridanus (Allen 1890)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Soricidae
Sorex palustris Richardson 1828
1 specimen
Sorex vagrans Baird 1858
2 specimens
Notiosorex crawfordi (Coues 1877)
130 specimens
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte 1831)
1 specimen
Myotis velifer (Allen 1890)
30 specimens
Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois 1796)
7 specimens
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus sp. Cope 1869
1 specimen
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Capromeryx cf. furcifer Matthew 1902
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis rufa Schreber 1777
1 specimen
recombined as Lynx rufus
"Felis rufus"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Culberson
Coordinates: 31.2° North, 104.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:31.2° North, 104.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: material from the middle of three layers (Layer 2); 1 and 3 are barren of fossils
Layer 2 is "approximately 20 cm thick"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow "limestone"
Lithology description: "yellow... irregular limestone fragments and pebbles, bits of stalactite fragments, cave pearls, and crystals of water-clear calciite... between 5-15 mm in diameter"
Environment:sinkhole
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,bone collector
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated minor elements:many
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection
Rock censused:460 kg
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: sediments "in excess of 1,000 pounds" were screenwashed
Taxonomic list comments:it is not entirely clear that the snails are from the Pleistocene layer instead of the Holocene silts
abundances are given only for the Pleistocene occurrences
Metadata
Database number:74473
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-06 14:38:57 Last modified:2007-08-06 18:04:59
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-06 14:38:57
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

1326. W. W. Dalquest and F. B. Stangl, Jr. 1984. Late Pleistocene and early Recent mammals from Fowlkes Cave, southern Culberson County, Texas. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:432-455 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]