Fowlkes Cave (Holocene): Holocene, Texas

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus hesperus (Allen 1864)
Antrozous pallidus (Le Conte 1856)
Myotis velifer (Allen 1890)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Molossidae
Tadarida brasiliensis (Geoffroy 1824)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Mormoops megalophyla
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus astutus (Lichtenstein 1830)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis latrans Say 1823
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Dicotyles tajacu (Linnaeus 1758)
recombined as Pecari tajacu
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus hemionus (Rafinesque 1817)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Notiosorex crawfordi (Coues 1877)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Ammospermophilus interpres (Merriam 1890)
Spermophilus variegatus (Erxleben 1777)
recombined as Otospermophilus variegatus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Dipodomys ordii Woodhouse 1853
Dipodomys spectabilis Merriam 1890
Dipodomys merriami Mearns 1890
Perognathus flavus Baird 1855
Perognathus hispidus Baird 1858
recombined as Chaetodipus hispidus
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Pappogeomys castanops (Baird 1852)
recombined as Cratogeomys castanops
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825
Neotoma micropus Baird 1855
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894
Onychomys torridus (Coues 1874)
Peromyscus leucopus (Rafinesque 1818)
Peromyscus eremicus (Baird 1858)
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904
Peromyscus maniculatus (Wagner 1843)
Reithrodontomys megalotis (Baird 1858)
Reithrodontomys montanus (Baird 1855)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus californicus Gray 1837
Sylvilagus audubonii (Baird 1858)
Mammalia - Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758
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:Holocene
Key time interval:Holocene
Age range of interval:0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: "less than 1 ft deep at the western extremity but more than 16 inches deep at the eastern end"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black siltstone
Lithology description: "black surficial silt"
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:450 kg
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: "probably near 1,000 pounds" was screenwashed
Metadata
Database number:74474
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-08-06 14:55:40 Last modified:2007-08-06 17:55:40
Access level:the public Released:2007-08-06 14:55:40
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]