Jimenez Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Mexico
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
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Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
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Antrozous pallidus
(Le Conte 1856)
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Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Molossidae
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Tadarida sp.
Rafinesque 1814
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
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Cynomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
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Spermophilus variegatus
(Erxleben 1777)
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| recombined as Otospermophilus variegatus | ||||||||||
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Spermophilus spilosoma
Bennett 1833
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Sigmodon sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Neotoma ? cinerea
(Ord 1815)
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Neotoma albigula
Hartley 1894
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| Neotoma identifications repeated from Harris 1984 | ||||||||||
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Neotoma ? micropus
Baird 1855
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Neotoma lepida
Thomas 1893
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Neotoma cf. floridana
(Ord 1818)
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
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Reithrodontomys sp.
Giglioli 1874
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| "R. megalotis or R. montanus" | ||||||||||
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Onychomys sp.
Baird 1858
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hesperomyidae
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Baiomys taylori
(Thomas 1887)
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| original and current combination Hesperomys taylori | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Pappogeomys castanops
(Baird 1852)
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| recombined as Cratogeomys castanops | ||||||||||
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Thomomys cf. umbrinus
(Richardson 1829)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Heteromyidae
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Dipodomys sp.
Gray 1841
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| "D. nelsoni or D. spectabilis" | ||||||||||
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Perognathus sp.
Maximillian 1839
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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| said to be a new genus also present at Dry Cave and Anthony Cave | ||||||||||
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Sylvilagus audubonii
(Baird 1858)
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| originally entered as "Sylvilagus audobonii" | ||||||||||
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Lepus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Notiosorex crawfordi
(Coues 1877)
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Cryptotis parva
(Say 1823)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus americanus
Pallas 1780
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustela nigripes
(Audubon and Bachman 1851)
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| original and current combination Putorius nigripes | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Lynx rufus
(Schreber 1777)
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Puma concolor
(Linnaeus 1771)
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| "Felis concolor" | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis latrans
Say 1823
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Mammalia
- Antilocapridae
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Antilocapra americana
(Ord 1815)
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Capromeryx sp.
Matthew 1902
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Geography
| Country: | Mexico | State/province: | Chihuahua |
| Coordinates: | 27.0° North, 104.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.0° North, 104.8° West |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: "extremely fine sand... aeolian or water-deposited" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | coprolite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (float),sieve |
Metadata
| Also known as: | UTEP Locality 91 | ||
| Database number: | 71263 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | ||
| Created: | 1999-02-05 16:57:53 | Last modified: | 2009-07-15 18:33:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1999-02-05 16:57:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24053. | H. J. Messing. 1986. A Late Pleistocene-Holocene fauna from Chihuahua, Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 31(3):277-288 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |