Schulze Cave Layer C3 (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Edwards County, Texas (30.3° N, 99.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• previous reports of Dalquest et al. (1969) and Holman (1969) pertained to the overlying layers C1 (Holocene) and C2 (late Rancholabrean)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported

• cave is "of the sinkhole type with one entrance"
• none given

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: bone collector

Collected by Walter W. Dalquest in 1965, 1966

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• MSUVP collection "of matrix" (as opposed to fossils) and therefore presumably screenwashed

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76101: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• undescribed mammals are almost certainly present in this layer
Reptilia
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Sceloporus undulatus Bosc 1802 eastern fence lizard
Crotaphytus collaris Say 1823 Collared lizard
 Squamata - Scincidae
Eumeces cf. obsoletus Baird and Girard 1852 Great plains skink
 Squamata - Crotalidae
Agkistrodon sp. Huxley 1865 cottonmouth
Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 rattlesnake
 Squamata - Colubridae
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake
"Coluber or Masticophis"
Pituophis melanoleucus Daudin 1803 pine snake
Elaphe cf. guttata Linnaeus 1766 corn snake
Elaphe obsoleta Say 1823 black rat snake
Opheodrys cf. aestivus colubrid snake
Lampropeltis getulus Linnaeus 1766 kingsnake
Lampropeltis triangulum Lacépède 1788 milk snake
Arizona elegans Kennicott 1859 glossy snake
Heterodon cf. nasicus Baird and Girard 1852 western hognose snake
Heterodon cf. platyrhinos Latreille 1801 eastern hognosed snake
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843 garter snake
"probably at least two species are represented"
 Testudines - Testudinidae
 Testudines - Emydidae
Terrapene ornata Agassiz 1857 Western box turtle
Amphibia
 Caudata - Urodela
Ambystoma tigrinum Green 1825 tiger salamander
 Salientia - Eleutherodactylidae
Eleutherodactylus augusti frog
"Eleutherodactylus augusti latrans"
 Salientia - Bufonidae
Bufo woodhousei Girard 1854 Woodhouse's toad
"Bufo woodhousei woodhousei"
 Salientia - Leptodactylidae
Syrrhophus marnocki Cope 1878 cliff chirping frog