ammonites
Bighorn Cave - Locus A, Level I (Holocene of the United States)

Also known as Locus A = "lower shelter and toe of talus cone"; Level I = "Component I"

Where: Mohave County, Arizona (35.2° N, 114.4° W: paleocoordinates 35.2° N, 114.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Fauna recovered from cave fill sediments; details of stratigraphy were provided by Geib and Keller (2002); Level (Component) I associated with radiocarbon dates spanning 3395 yr B.P. and 2425 yr B.P. (Geib and Keller, 2002).

Environment/lithology: caveunlithified

• Cave is formed within a "massive volcanic breccia" (Geib (2002:7); see also Geib and Keller (2002)

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Screen mesh size reported by Geib and Keller (2002); specimens are curated in the Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona (NAUQSP)

Primary reference: C. N. Jass. 2004. Mid to late Holocene mammals from Bighorn Cave, Arizona. The Southwestern Naturalist 49(1):75-82 [C. Bell/C. Bell] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63708: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 18.08.2006