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
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Nothrotherium sp.
Lydekker 1889
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= Nothrotheriops sp.
Hoffstetter 1954
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Alroy 2011 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Elephas sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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= Mammuthus sp.
Brookes 1828
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Lutugin 1894 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis cf. lupus
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus cf. occidentalis
Leidy 1865
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synonym of Equus (Hesperohippus) mexicanus | ||||||||||
"E. near occidentalis" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Camelidae
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Camelops sp.
Leidy 1854
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bison sp.
Hamilton-Smith 1827
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"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] |