Sandia Cave Units F and H: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, New Mexico
collected by W. L. Bliss, F. C. Hibben 1936-1941

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Nothrotheriidae
Nothrotherium sp. Lydekker 1889
    = Nothrotheriops sp. Hoffstetter 1954
Alroy 2011
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Elephas sp. Linnaeus 1758
    = Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828
Lutugin 1894
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis cf. lupus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. occidentalis Leidy 1865
synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus
"E. near occidentalis"
Mammalia - Camelidae
Camelops sp. Leidy 1854
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bison sp. Hamilton-Smith 1827
"Bison, near, but smaller than, taylori"
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:New Mexico County:Sandoval
Coordinates: 35.3° North, 106.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:35.3° North, 106.4° West
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Quaternary
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene
Age range of interval:0.12600 - 0.00000 m.y. ago
Age estimate:12830 ± 490 to 9100 ± 500 YBP (14C)
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: thought by Hibben to be a single "Folsom" unit of "Late Pleistocene or early Recent age"; for unit H there are 14C dates of "9,100+/-500" years B.P. on "breccia organics" and "12,830+/-490" on "bone organics," and for unit F there is a date of "12,000+/-400" on "breccia organics"; the unit H "bone organics" also have a rejected uranium-series date of "73,000+/-4000" (Haynes and Agogino 1986)
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,brown poorly lithified silty,calcareous breccia
Lithology description: unit H is the "Upper breccia... light brown, calcareous, porous breccia of dust, rock fragments, and bone fragments; more consolidated at the top" and unit F is the "Lower breccia... same as unit H but thicker and less cemented inplaces" (Haynes and Agogino 1986)
Environment:cave
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,midden
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:time-averaged
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:archaeological analysis
Collectors:W. L. Bliss, F. C. Hibben Collection dates:1936-1941
Collection method comments: the original excavation was of the first three 23 meters of the cave
Metadata
Also known as:Folsom Layer
Database number:93376
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-01-16 10:19:46 Last modified:2022-03-07 10:15:17
Access level:the public Released:2010-01-16 10:19:46
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

31597. F. C. Hibben. 1941. Evidences of early occupation in Sandia Cave, New Mexico, and other sites in the Sandia-Manzano region. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 99(23):1-44 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]