Sample name: Bat Cave

Reference: O. Hawksley, J. F. Reynolds, and R. L. Foley. 1973. Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of Bat Cave, Pulaski County, Missouri. Bulletin of the National Speleological Society 35(3):61-87 [ER 3130]

Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: cave, fluvial deposit

Habitat comments: "Generally, the bones were found within the upper 30cm of a matrix consisting of phrenatic clay and residual materials from the dolomite... bones were either carried into the passage by water or were moved within the passage by water after original deposition. However, there is little evidence of wear by tumbling, so the bones could not have been moved far. Some material, such as... a single individual of the extinct bear, Arctodus simus... appear to have been found at the original site of a 'bear bed'"

Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, snakes, frogs, salamanders

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 6974 specimens

Years: 1958, 1960 - 1968

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "The majority of the bones were recovered by careful excavation" and "some of the matrix" was "screened for small teeth and bones"
"A single tibia" of Rattus sp. "apparently was taken from the surface" and is not included in the list

Sample no: 3417

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-31 16:39:44

Modified: 2019-09-04 11:39:10