Cueva de Abra Travertine (Pleistocene of Mexico)
Where: Tamaulipas, Mexico (22.4° N, 98.0° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° N, 98.0° W)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave
• from a three inch thick slab of "buff-colored travertine"; additional, undescribed fossils from several other parts of the cave are not included in the report
Preservation: coprolite
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: W. W. Dalquest and E. Roth. 1970. Late Pleistocene mammals from a cave in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 15(2):217-230 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 71264: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.02.1999, edited by Jason Head
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia | |
Rana pipiens Schreber 1782 Northern leopard frog | |
Leptodactylus (cf. Leptodactylus) labialis White-lipped frogs | |
Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril and Bibron 1841 Mexican burrowing toad | |
Mammalia | |
Liomys irroratus Gray 1868 Mexican spiny pocket mouse | |
Sigmodon hispidus, Neotoma micropus, Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Peromyscus leucopus, Peromyscus pectoralis, Oryzomys palustris, Onychomys leucogaster
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat
Reithrodontomys fulvescens Allen 1894 fulvous harvest mouse
Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque 1818 white-footed mouse
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904 white-ankled mouse
Oryzomys palustris Harlan 1837 marsh rice rat
Onychomys leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse | |
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori Thomas 1887 northern pygmy mouse | |
Sylvilagus cf. floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew | |
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
Balantiopteryx io Thomas 1904 Thomas's sac-winged bat | |
Tadarida laticaudata Geoffroy 1805 free-tailed bat
Tadarida aurispinosa Peale 1848 Peale's free-tailed bat
Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 Mexican free-tailed bat
Eumops perotis Schinz 1821 western mastiff bat | |
Artibeus jamaicensis Leach 1821 Jamaican fruit bat
Leptonycteris nivalis Saussure 1860 greater long-nosed bat | |
Marmosa mexicana Merriam 1897 Mexican mouse opposum
Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 common opossum | |
Reptilia | |
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Cnemidophorus gularis whiptail lizard | |
Lepidophyma indet. Duméril 1851 tropical night lizard | |
Sceloporus indet. Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard
Sceloporus (cf. Sceloporus) variabilis Wiegmann 1834 Rosebelly lizard |