Natural Trap Cave (Wisconsinan): Late/Upper Pleistocene, Wyoming
collected 1974 - 1985

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera atrox (Leidy 1853)
recombined as Panthera leo atrox
Felis trumani Orr 1969
    = Miracinonyx trumani Orr 1969
Wang and Martin 1993
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
Martes nobilis (Hall 1926)
Wang and Martin 1993
synonym of Martes americana
Gulo gulo (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus simus (Cope 1879)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Canis dirus Leidy 1858
Wang and Martin 1993
recombined as Aenocyon dirus
Canis latrans Say 1823
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758
Wang and Martin 1993
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758
large and small forms
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821
large
Mammalia - Antilocapridae
Antilocapridae indet. Gray 1866
    = Antilocapra americana Ord 1815
Wang and Martin 1993
Mammalia - Bovidae
Ovis catclawensis Hibbard and Wright 1956
    = Ovis canadensis Shaw 1804
Wang and Martin 1993
Bootherium bombifrons (Harlan 1825)
Wang and Martin 1993
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
    = Bison bison Linnaeus 1758
Wang and Martin 1993
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775
Eutamias sp. Trouessart 1880
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Wyoming County:Big Horn
Coordinates: 45.0° North, 108.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:45.0° North, 108.2° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:1300 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: dates include "12,770 +/- 900 radiocarbon years ago" and (on the immediately overstratum) "10,920 +/- 300 radiocarbon years ago" and excavations through 1975 went to a depth of 3 m
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Lithology description: "roof fall, eolian sediments, and bones" plus occasional "periods of rapid volcanic ash fall" (Wang and Martin 1993)
Environment:cave
Glacial or sequence phase:late glacial
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:selective quarrying
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection dates:1974 - 1985
Collection method comments: KUVP collection
Metadata
Database number:93181
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:J. Alroy Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-06 16:18:39 Last modified:2010-01-06 18:27:43
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-06 16:18:39
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31486. L. D. Martin, B. M. Gilbert, and D. B. Adams. 1977. A cheetah-like cat in the North American Pleistocene. Science 195:981-982 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]

Secondary references:

3553 X. Wang and L. D. Martin. 1993. Natural Trap Cave. National Geographic Research & Exploration 9(4):422-435 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]