Also known as Topmost Level
Where: Sandoval County, New Mexico (35.3° N, 106.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.3° N, 106.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• there is a single 14C date of "870+/-110" years B.P. on "organic debris" but the unit spans most of the Holocene (Haynes and Agogino 1986)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: midden
Collected by W. L. Bliss, F. C. Hibben in 1936-1941
Collection methods: quarrying,
• the original excavation was of the first three 23 meters of the cave
Primary reference: F. C. Hibben. 1941. Evidences of early occupation in Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and other sites in the Sandia-Manzano region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 99(23):1-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 93375: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 16.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804 bighorn sheep | |
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832 New World deer
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer | |
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Erethizon sp. Cuvier 1822 North American porcupine | |
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