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- Title
LATE WISCONSIN MAMMALIAN FAUNA FROM DUST CAVE, GUADALUPE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK, CULBERSON COUNTY, TEXAS.
- Authors
Harris, Arthur H.; Hearst, Jonena
- Abstract
Three caves in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson County, Texas, are closely grouped spatially, and their fossil-bearing sediments are about the same late Pleistocene age. Publications concerning two of the caves, Upper Sloth Cave and Lower Sloth Cave, list and discuss their fossil faunas. Here, we add identifications of mammals from the third site, Dust Cave, and briefly comment on selected taxa. Tamias canipes or T. quadrivittatus (gray-footed or Colorado chipmunk), Tamias minimus (least chipmunk), Reithrodontomys (harvest mouse), Sigmodon ochrognathus (yellow-nosed cotton rat), Aztlanolagus agilis (Aztlán rabbit), and Sorex nanus (dwarf shrew) are added to the faunal list of the cave complex. More questionable identifications of taxa not recorded from the other caves include Ictidomys tridecemlineatus (thirteen-lined ground squirrel), Thomomys talpoides (northern pocket gopher), and Capromeryx (miniature pronghorns). Reexamination of several taxa from the Sloth caves did not confirm published records of Cryptotis parva (least shrew), but added Sorex merriami (Merriam's shrew) and confirmed the presence of Neotoma mexicana (Mexican woodrat) and Sorex cinereus (masked shrew).
- Subjects
WISCONSIN; DUST Cave (Ala.); GUADALUPE Mountains National Park (Tex.); TEXAS; CULBERSON County (Tex.); MAMMALS; ANIMALS; PLEISTOCENE Epoch; SEDIMENTS
- Publication
Southwestern Naturalist, 2012, Vol 57, Issue 2, p202
- ISSN
0038-4909
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1894/0038-4909-57.2.202