PBDB Collection

Jimenez Cave (Pleistocene to of Mexico)

Also known as UTEP Locality 91

Where: Chihuahua, Mexico (27.0° N, 104.8° W: paleocoordinates 27.0° N, 104.8° W)

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

Environment/lithology: cave

• "extremely fine sand... aeolian or water-deposited"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: coprolite

Collection methods: surface (float), sieve

Primary reference: H. J. Messing. 1986. A Late Pleistocene-Holocene fauna from Chihuahua, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):277-288 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

PaleoDB collection 71263: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 05.02.1999

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
Soricomorpha - Soricidae	Cryptotis parva, Notiosorex crawfordi Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
Carnivora - Mustelidae	Mustela nigripes Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851 black-footed ferret
Carnivora - Ursidae	Ursus americanus Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear
Carnivora - Felidae	Puma concolor, Lynx rufus Puma concolor Linnaeus 1771 puma "Felis concolor" Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat
Carnivora - Canidae	Canis latrans Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote
Artiodactyla - Antilocapridae	Antilocapra americana, Capromeryx sp. Antilocapra americana Ord 1815 pronghorn Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn
Lagomorpha - Leporidae	Leporidae indet., Sylvilagus audubonii, Lepus sp. Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit said to be a new genus also present at Dry Cave and Anthony Cave Sylvilagus audubonii Baird 1858 desert cottontail originally entered as "Sylvilagus audobonii" Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare
Rodentia - Cricetidae	Neotoma ? cinerea, Neotoma ? micropus, Neotoma cf. floridana, Neotoma lepida, Neotoma albigula, Peromyscus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Sigmodon sp., Reithrodontomys sp., Onychomys sp. Neotoma ? cinerea Ord 1815 bushy-tailed woodrat Neotoma ? micropus Baird 1855 southern plains woodrat Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat Neotoma lepida Thomas 1893 desert woodrat Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat Neotoma identifications repeated from Harris 1984 Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse "R. megalotis or R. montanus" Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse
Rodentia - Heteromyidae	Perognathus sp., Dipodomys sp. Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839 pocket mouse Dipodomys sp. Gray 1841 kangaroo rat "D. nelsoni or D. spectabilis"
Rodentia - Geomyidae	Thomomys cf. umbrinus, "Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops Thomomys cf. umbrinus Richardson 1829 southern pocket gopher "Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops Baird 1852 yellow-faced pocket gopher
Rodentia - Hesperomyidae	"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori "Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori Thomas 1887 northern pygmy mouse
Rodentia - Sciuridae	Spermophilus spilosoma, "Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus, Cynomys sp. Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833 spotted ground squirrel "Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae	Myotis sp., Antrozous pallidus Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat Antrozous pallidus Le Conte 1856 pallid bat
Chiroptera - Molossidae	Tadarida sp. Tadarida sp. Rafinesque 1814 free-tailed bat