Laubach Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected 1963
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Proboscidea
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Proboscidea indet.
Illiger 1811
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys ludovicianus
(Ord 1815)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Lynx rufus
(Schreber 1777)
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Panthera onca
(Linnaeus 1758)
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| "Panthera onca augusta" (4 measurements) | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis latrans
Say 1823
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Canis cf. dirus
Leidy 1858
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| recombined as Aenocyon dirus | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Platygonus compressus
Leconte 1848
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Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Williamson |
| Coordinates: | 30.6° North, 97.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.6° North, 97.7° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| Stage: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: cave deposit within the Edwards Limestone "the fauna [may belong] to the last major interglacial or interstadial, i.e., 25,000-45,000 B.P. This, of course, is purely conjectural" | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,bone collector |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial orientation: | random |
| Articulated whole bodies: | none |
| Associated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated major elements: | many |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1963 |
| Collection method comments: discovered by the Texas Highway Department while "drilling 4" core holes... seeking information for the footing of a proposed overpass"
material is in the Shuler Museum of Paleontology at Southern Methodist University | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 79683 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-17 21:32:38 | Last modified: | 2008-03-17 23:32:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-17 21:32:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26776. | B. H. Slaughter. 1966. Platygonus compressus and associated fauna from the Laubach Cave of Texas. American Midland Naturalist 75(2):475-494 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |