San Josecito Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Mexico

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium sp. Lydekker 1889
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Corynorhinus tetralophodon Handley 1955
recombined as Plecotus tetralophodon
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Tremarctos mexicanus Stock 1950
synonym of Tremarctos floridanus
Euarctos sp. Gray 1864
synonym of Ursus
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela reliquus n. sp. Hall 1960
Hall 1960
synonym of Neogale frenata
LACM/CIT 192/395 [digit following numeral 5 is illegible],
Taxidea taxus (Schreber 1778)
    = Taxidea cf. taxus Schreber 1778
Hall 1960
Mammalia - Carnivora - Procyonidae
Bassariscus astutus (Lichtenstein 1830)
(2 measurements)
    = Bassariscus sonoitensis Skinner 1942
Hall 1960
synonym of Bassariscus astutus
LACM (CIT) 192/3945
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Conepatus sp. Gray 1837
    = Conepatus mesoleucus Lichtenstein 1832
Hall 1960
synonym of Conepatus leuconotus
"Conepatus probably mesoleucus mearnsi"
Spilogale sp. Gray 1865
    = Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758
Hall 1960
"Spilogale putorius leucoparia"
Mephitis macroura Lichtenstein 1832
    = Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776
Hall 1960
"Mephitis mephitis varians"
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis dirus Leidy 1858
recombined as Aenocyon dirus
Cuon alpinus (Pallas 1811)
Tedford et al. 2009
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon sp. Lund 1841
Panthera onca (Linnaeus 1758)
Felis atrox Leidy 1853
recombined as Panthera leo atrox
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus conversidens Owen 1869
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus sp. Rafinesque 1832
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Stockoceros conklingi (Stock 1930)
Mammalia - Bovidae
Preptoceras sp. Furlong 1905
synonym of Euceratherium
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus leonensis Cushing 1945
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858
Peromyscus boylii (Baird 1855)
Neotoma albigula Hartley 1894
Sigmodon hispidus Say and Ord 1825
Microtus mexicanus (Saussure 1861)
Reithrodontomys megalotis (Baird 1858)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Sciurus alleni Nelson 1898
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775
Spermophilus spilosoma Bennett 1833
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Cratogeomys castanops (Baird 1852)
Heterogeomys sp. Merriam 1895
synonym of Orthogeomys
Thomomys bottae (Eydoux and Gervais 1836)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Heteromyidae
Liomys irroratus (Gray 1868)
see common names

Geography
Country:Mexico State/province:Nuevo Leon
Coordinates: 24.1° North, 99.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:24.1° North, 99.8° West
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:cave
Geology comments: faunal dating
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,sieve
Metadata
Database number:71345
Authorizer:J. Alroy, J. Marcot Enterer:K. Sears, J. Marcot
Created:1999-03-12 09:48:02 Last modified:1999-03-12 11:48:02
Access level:the public Released:1999-03-12 09:48:02
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
24078. G.E. Jakway. 1958. Pleistocene Lagomorpha and Rodentia from the San Josecito Cave, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 61(3):313-327 [J. Alroy/K. Sears]

Secondary references:

57024 E. R. Hall. 1960. Small Carnivores From San Josecito Cave (Pleistocene), Nuevo León, México. University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History 9(20):531-538 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot]
52058 R. H. Tedford, X. Wang, and B. E. Taylor. 2009. Phylogenetic Systematics of the North American Fossil Caninae (Carnivora: Canidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 325:1-218 [J. Marcot/J. Marcot/G. Lloyd]