Also known as SCBC

Where: White Pine County, Nevada (39.0° N, 114.0° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 114.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• "at least some of the deposits" are "late Rancholabrean" or "late [Wisconsinan] glacial" but some might be early Holocene based on dates of "7,860 +/- 130 yr B.P." (conventional C14) on bat guano (Unit II); "9,460 +/- 160 yr B.P." (AMS on wood) "from the very top" of the underlying fossiliferous Unit III; and "15,100 +/- 700 yr B.P." (U-Th) "on an Equus second phalanx recovered from near the bottom" of Unit III)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; unlithified, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. M. Mead, J. I. Mead, A. Cartwright, D. Cartwright, D. Dawson, S. Emslie, W. J. Marsh, J. W. Marsh, C. Mead, P. Youngman in 1984, 1987

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "an estimated 30,000 fish, amphibian, reptilian, avian, and mammalian bones" were excavated and "All material was screened through both 5-mm and 1-mm screens"

Primary reference: E. M. Mead and J. I. Mead. 1989. Snake Creek Burial Cave and a review of the Quaternary mustelids of the Great Basin. Great Basin Naturalist 49(2):143-154 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93291: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 13.01.2010

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