Where: Eddy County, New Mexico (32.3° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 32.4° N, 104.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "the depth of dirt and debris" ranges from between "two or three feet" and "approximately nine feet" deep; "the surface of the cave showed disturbance" by "local collectors" who "had discovered several burials... in the upper two or three feet... Below the burial level many hearths or lens-shaped deposits of charcoal and ashes were found at various levels down to a depth of eight feet six inches. Also in these lower levels were found the bones... in a number of cases, associated directly with the hearths"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; rubbly siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

• "A large number of the bones were broken" and "some of the bones... had been burned... a grooved [Folsom-like] spear-point" that was "found about four feet below the nearest burial" was "associated with the bones of an extinct bison... and an extinct muskox"

Collected by C. B. Schultz, E. B. Howard, B. Brown in 1930-1933, 1937, 1938; reposited in the UNSM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia collection (through 1935) and UNSM collection (1937, 1938, and possibly other years)

•Brown was a visitor for one week in 1931 only

Primary reference: C. B. Schultz and E. B. Howard. 1935. The fauna of Burnet Cave, Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 87:273-298 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93281: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.01.2010

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