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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia | |
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Antrozous pallidus Le Conte 1856 pallid bat | |
Tadarida sp. Rafinesque 1814 free-tailed bat | |
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
"Spermophilus variegatus" = Otospermophilus variegatus Erxleben 1777 rock squirrel
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833 spotted ground squirrel | |
Sigmodon sp., Neotoma ? cinerea, Neotoma albigula, Neotoma ? micropus, Neotoma lepida, Neotoma cf. floridana, Peromyscus sp., Microtus pennsylvanicus, Reithrodontomys sp., Onychomys sp.
Sigmodon sp. Say and Ord 1825 cotton rat
Neotoma ? cinerea Ord 1815 bushy-tailed woodrat
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894 white-throated woodrat Neotoma identifications repeated from Harris 1984
Neotoma ? micropus Baird 1855 southern plains woodrat
Neotoma lepida Thomas 1893 desert woodrat
Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Onychomys sp. Baird 1858 grasshopper mouse | |
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori Thomas 1887 northern pygmy mouse | |
"Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops, Thomomys cf. umbrinus
"Pappogeomys castanops" = Cratogeomys castanops Baird 1852 yellow-faced pocket gopher
Thomomys cf. umbrinus Richardson 1829 southern pocket gopher | |
Perognathus sp. Maximillian 1839 pocket mouse | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit said to be a new genus also present at Dry Cave and Anthony Cave
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hare | |
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew | |
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear | |
Mustela nigripes Audubon and Bachman 1851 black-footed ferret | |
Lynx rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat | |
Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Antilocapra americana Ord 1815 pronghorn
Capromeryx sp. Matthew 1902 pronghorn |