Papago Springs Cave
Basic information
Sample name: Papago Springs Cave
Reference: M. F. Skinner. 1942. The fauna of Papago Springs Cave, Arizona, and a study of Stockoceros; with three new antilocaprids from Nebraska and Arizona. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 80(6):143-220 [ER 3115]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Arizona
County: Santa Cruz
Coordinate: 31.61° N, -110.62° W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.1076
Min Ma: 0.0267
Age basis: U/Th
Geography comments: "about 5 1/2 miles southeast of Sonoita, Arizona, in the S.E. 1/4 of Sect. 16, T. 21 S., R. 17 E., at an elevation of approximately 5, 200 feet"
Czaplewski et al. (1989) report four U/Th dates ranging from 107.6 +/- 3.5 to 26.7 +/- 0.7 ky
Czaplewski et al. (1989) report four U/Th dates ranging from 107.6 +/- 3.5 to 26.7 +/- 0.7 ky
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: cave, fluvial deposit
Habitat comments: sediments were initially carried "from freshets" flowing "into the main room" but "The last deposits of the open cave (stage 2) show it had been used for many seasons by animals"
"Human artifacts... were found mingled with remains of the Recent fauna, but not in the late Pleistocene matrix"
"Human artifacts... were found mingled with remains of the Recent fauna, but not in the late Pleistocene matrix"
Methods
Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds
Excluded forms: snails
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 3471 specimens
Years: 1934, 1936 - 1938, 1940
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: five species of land snails are listed but not inventoried
Metadata
Sample no: 3402
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 11:13:13
Modified: 2019-08-30 01:34:05
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
34 species
6 singletons
total count 3471
geometric series index: 53.4
Fisher's α: 5.232
geometric series k: 0.7834
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1749
Shannon's H: 0.5476
Good's u: 0.9983
Register
| Threskiornithidae indet. | 2 | |
| Ibis-like | ||
| Marmota flaviventris | 114 | |
| Otospermophilus variegatus | 3 | 695.0 g |
| "Citellus (Otospermophilus) variegatus" | ||
| Neotamias ? dorsalis | 2 | |
| "Eutamias ? dorsalis" | ||
| Thomomys sp. | 4 | |
| bottae or umbrinus | ||
| Perognathus flavescens | 1 | |
| "Perognathus apache" | ||
| Neotoma sp. | 13 | |
| mexicana or albigula | ||
| Onychomys ? leucogaster | 1 | 34.7 g |
| Microtus ? mexicanus | 7 | 27.7 g |
| Peromyscus maniculatus | 30 | 19.1 g |
| Peromyscus sp. | 19 | |
| boylii or truei | ||
| Lepus californicus | 3 | 2.1 kg |
| Sylvilagus audubonii | 2 | 869.0 g |
| "auduboni" | ||
| Myotis ? velifer | 23 | 8.6 g |
| Myotis ? thysanodes | 12 | 6.7 g |
| Myotis ? evotis | 4 | 6.5 g |
| Corynorhinus rafinesquii | 1 | 9.1 g |
| Antrozous pallidus | 2 | |
| Tadarida ? brasiliensis | 3 | 11.3 g |
| "Tadarida ? mexicana" | ||
| Ursus americanus (American black bear) | 7 | 115.0 kg |
| "Ursus americanus gentryi" type | ||
| Canis latrans (coyote) | 5 | 12.0 kg |
| "Canis caneloensis" type | ||
| Canis lupus nubilus (gray wolf) | 5 | 43.0 kg |
| "Canis nubilus" | ||
| Urocyon cinereoargenteus (gray fox) | 5 | 4.1 kg |
| Taxidea taxus (American badger) | 2 | |
| papagoensis type | ||
| Mephitis mephitis occidentalis (striped skunk) | 6 | |
| "Mephitis occidentalis" | ||
| Spilogale gracilis (western spotted skunk) | 2 | |
| "Spilogale arizonae" | ||
| Bassariscus astutus (ringtail) | 9 | 949.0 g |
| "Bassariscus sonoitensis" type | ||
| †Equus conversidens (horse) | 6 | |
| †Haringtonhippus francisci (horse) | 1 | |
| "Equus tau" | ||
| †Platygonus compressus (peccary) | 19 | |
| "Platygonus alemanii" | ||
| †Bison antiquus (bison) | 6 | |
| "Bison taylori" | ||
| Cervus sp. | 1 | |
| Camelidae indet. | 1 | |
| †Stockoceros onusrosagris | 3150 | |
| count is approximate | ||