Schulze Cave Layer C3: Late/Upper Pleistocene, Texas
collected by Walter W. Dalquest 1965, 1966
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Eleutherodactylidae
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Eleutherodactylus augusti
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| "Eleutherodactylus augusti latrans" | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo woodhousei
Girard 1854
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5 specimens | |||||||||
| "Bufo woodhousei woodhousei" | ||||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Leptodactylidae
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Syrrhophus marnocki
Cope 1878
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Urodela
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Ambystoma tigrinum
(Green 1825)
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Colubridae indet.
Oppel 1811
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70 specimens | |||||||||
| "Coluber or Masticophis" | ||||||||||
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Lampropeltis getulus
(Linnaeus 1766)
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42 specimens | |||||||||
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Lampropeltis triangulum
Lacépède 1788
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Elaphe cf. guttata
(Linnaeus 1766)
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26 specimens | |||||||||
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Elaphe obsoleta
(Say 1823)
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17 specimens | |||||||||
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Arizona elegans
Kennicott 1859
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Pituophis melanoleucus
(Daudin 1803)
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32 specimens | |||||||||
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Opheodrys cf. aestivus
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Thamnophis sp.
Fitzinger 1843
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19 specimens | |||||||||
| "probably at least two species are represented" | ||||||||||
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Heterodon cf. platyrhinos
(Latreille 1801)
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Heterodon cf. nasicus
Baird and Girard 1852
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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85 specimens | |||||||||
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Agkistrodon sp.
(Huxley 1865)
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16 specimens | |||||||||
| nomen dubium belonging to Crocopoda | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Scincidae
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Eumeces cf. obsoletus
Baird and Girard 1852
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Iguanidae
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Crotaphytus collaris
(Say 1823)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Sceloporus undulatus
(Bosc 1802)
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9 specimens | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Emydidae
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Terrapene ornata
Agassiz 1857
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| (1 measurement) | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Testudines
- Testudinidae
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Geochelone (Hesperotestudo) cf. wilsoni
(Milstead 1956)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| synonym of Hesperotestudo turgida | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Edwards |
| Coordinates: | 30.3° North, 99.9° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.2° North, 99.9° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
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
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: previous reports of Dalquest et al. (1969) and Holman (1969) pertained to the overlying layers C1 (Holocene) and C2 (late Rancholabrean) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Lithology description: none given | |
| Environment: | sinkhole |
| Glacial or sequence phase: | glacial |
| Geology comments: cave is "of the sinkhole type with one entrance" | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,bone collector |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | many |
| Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,sieve,survey of museum collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Walter W. Dalquest | Collection dates: | 1965, 1966 |
| Collection method comments: MSUVP collection "of matrix" (as opposed to fossils) and therefore presumably screenwashed | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:undescribed mammals are almost certainly present in this layer | |||
Metadata
| Database number: | 76101 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-13 15:39:19 | Last modified: | 2007-11-13 17:39:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-11-13 15:39:19 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 726. | D. Parmley. 1986. Herpetofauna of the Rancholabrean Schulze Cave local fauna of Texas. Journal of Herpetology 20(1):1-10 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |