Schulze Cave Layer C3: Late Pleistocene, Texas
collected by Walter W. Dalquest 1965, 1966

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Urodela
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green 1825)
5 specimens
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Eleutherodactylidae
1 specimen
"Eleutherodactylus augusti latrans"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854
5 specimens
"Bufo woodhousei woodhousei"
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Leptodactylidae
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Testudinidae
1 specimen
Reptilia - Testudines - Emydidae
1 specimen
(1 measurement)
Reptilia - Scincidae
Eumeces cf. obsoletus Baird and Girard 1852
1 specimen
Reptilia - Iguanidae
3 specimens
9 specimens
Reptilia - Crotalidae
16 specimens
85 specimens
Reptilia - Colubridae
70 specimens
"Coluber or Masticophis"
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
19 specimens
"probably at least two species are represented"
4 specimens
Lampropeltis getulus (Linnaeus 1766)
42 specimens
Lampropeltis triangulum Lacépède 1788
16 specimens
Arizona elegans Kennicott 1859
6 specimens
32 specimens
Elaphe obsoleta (Say 1823)
17 specimens
Elaphe cf. guttata (Linnaeus 1766)
26 specimens
Heterodon cf. nasicus Baird and Girard 1852
5 specimens
Heterodon cf. platyrhinos (Latreille 1801)
7 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Texas County:Edwards
Coordinates: 30.3° North, 99.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Quaternary Epoch: Pleistocene
Stage: Late Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 6
Key time interval: Late Pleistocene
Age range of interval: 0.129 - 0.0117 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: previous reports of Dalquest et al. (1969) and Holman (1969) pertained to the overlying layers C1 (Holocene) and C2 (late Rancholabrean)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: none given
Environment:sinkhole
Glacial or sequence phase:glacial
Geology comments: cave is "of the sinkhole type with one entrance"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,bone collector
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Disassociated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:many
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,sieve,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Collectors:Walter W. Dalquest Collection dates:1965, 1966
Collection method comments: MSUVP collection "of matrix" (as opposed to fossils) and therefore presumably screenwashed
Taxonomic list comments:undescribed mammals are almost certainly present in this layer
Metadata
Database number:76101
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2007-11-13 15:39:19 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2007-11-13 15:39:19
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
726. D. Parmley. 1986. Herpetofauna of the Rancholabrean Schulze Cave local fauna of Texas. Journal of Herpetology 20(1):1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]