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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Mammalia | |
Marmosa mexicana Merriam 1897 Mexican mouse opposum
Didelphis marsupialis Linnaeus 1758 common opossum | |
Balantiopteryx io Thomas 1904 Thomas's sac-winged bat | |
Artibeus jamaicensis Leach 1821 Jamaican fruit bat
Leptonycteris nivalis Saussure 1860 greater long-nosed bat | |
Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 Mexican free-tailed bat
Tadarida laticaudata Geoffroy 1805 free-tailed bat
Tadarida aurispinosa Peale 1848 Peale's free-tailed bat
Eumops perotis Schinz 1821 western mastiff bat | |
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew
Notiosorex crawfordi Coues 1877 Crawford's gray shrew | |
Sylvilagus cf. floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
Liomys irroratus Gray 1868 Mexican spiny pocket mouse | |
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori
"Baiomys taylori" = Hesperomys taylori Thomas 1887 northern pygmy mouse | |
Onychomys leucogaster, Peromyscus pectoralis, Peromyscus leucopus, Oryzomys palustris, Neotoma micropus, Reithrodontomys fulvescens, Sigmodon hispidus
Onychomys leucogaster Wied-Neuwied 1841 northern grasshopper mouse
Peromyscus pectoralis Osgood 1904 white-ankled mouse
Peromyscus leucopus Rafinesque 1818 white-footed mouse
Oryzomys palustris Harlan 1837 marsh rice rat
Reithrodontomys fulvescens Allen 1894 fulvous harvest mouse
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825 hispid cotton rat | |
Reptilia | |
Lepidophyma indet. Duméril 1851 tropical night lizard | |
Colubrinae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Sceloporus indet. Wiegmann 1828 spiny lizard
Sceloporus (cf. Sceloporus) variabilis Wiegmann 1834 Rosebelly lizard | |
Cnemidophorus gularis whiptail lizard | |
Amphibia | |
Rhinophrynus dorsalis Duméril and Bibron 1841 Mexican burrowing toad | |
Rana pipiens Schreber 1782 Northern leopard frog | |
Leptodactylus (cf. Leptodactylus) labialis White-lipped frogs |