Also known as OMNH Locality V566
Where: Adair County, Oklahoma (35.8° N, 94.6° W: paleocoordinates 35.8° N, 94.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "late Rancholabrean (late Pleistocene)... the sediments had accumulated... to a depth of at least 1.6 m"
•AMS dating on tapir bone was attempted but did not succeed
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, brown, sandy claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Russell, S. Russell in 2001
Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,
• vertebrates other than the tapir were recovered by "screenwashing"
Primary reference: N. J. Czaplewski, W. L. Puckette, and C. Russell. 2002. A Pleistocene tapir and associated mammals from the southwestern Ozark Highland. 64(2):97-107 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93183: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 06.01.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
Caudata indet. salamander | |
Mammalia | |
Pipistrellus subflavus Cuvier 1832 eastern pipistrelle bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Lasionycteris noctivagans Le Conte 1831 silver-haired bat | |
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse | |
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk | |
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir |