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

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