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QUATERNARY VERTEBRATE SITES: SOUTHWESTERN USA AND NORTHWESTERN MEXICO

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New Mexican site information has been gathered from the literature (especially Morgan and Lucas, 2005 for New Mexican open sites; that is, non-cave sites) and personal experience with many of the UTEP collection sites.

Each site has a brief location description, many have comments, and a list of taxa recovered from the site is given. The "Literature" does not pretend to be complete, but should be sufficient to allow the reader to access further information. The literature source for each taxon is not given here since sources are available in the taxonomic accounts.

Where the taxonomy has changed, the currently accepted names are listed; the taxonomic accounts include synonyms that have been used in the Pleistocene faunal literature. Taxa represented in the UTEP Paleobiology Collection that have either not appeared in the literature or have appeared only in lists without being attributed are indicated by the UTEP acronym.

Some of the sites have only one or two taxa at the generic level recorded; sites documenting the presence of unidentified horses (Equus sp.) or of mammoths (Mammuthus sp. and Mammuthus columbi) are of interest in documenting the distribution of these genera, but such sites are of distinctly lesser general utility than sites with rarer taxa and sites where there is a larger fauna. To save the reader the necessity of opening such sites when more specific data are desired, these sites will be marked "E" where only Equus sp. occurs and "M" where only Mammuthus sp. or M. columbi occurs (in many cases where the original publication lists Mammuthus sp., M. columbi is listed in this work—see the Mammuthus account).

As with other portions of this work, many sites will be updated through time; the "Update" pages will note when significant changes occur.

Map of New Mexico showing counties.

New Mexico Sites

Abiquiu

Abo Arroyo

Aden Fumarole

Adobe Ranch

Agua Fria

Agua Negra

Alamogordo Creek

Albert (M)

Albuquerque

Albuquerque Gravel Pits

Algerita Blossom Cave

Alkali Flat

Alkali Spring

Ancha

Anderson Basin/Circus Basin/Elephant Tusk Basin

Animal Fair Room, Hampton Court, Charlies Parlor, Dry Cave

Anthony Gap Cave

Apache Spring

Archuleta Creek

Arroyo del Coyote

Arroyo de las Tinajas 1

Arroyo de las Tinajas 7A

Arroyo de las Tinajas 7b

Arroyo de las Tinajas 7D

Atlatl Cave

Badlands Ranch

Balcony on Lost Valley, Dry Cave

Balcony Room, Dry Cave

Baldy Peak Cave

Bat Cave

Beyond Bison Chamber, Dry Cave

Big Bear

Big Manhole Cave

Bison Chamber, Dry Cave

Black River

Black Rock

Blackwater Draw

Bloomfield

Bosque

Boyd's Cave

Burnet Cave

Caballo

Calabacillas Arroyo (E)

Camel Room, Dry Cave

Capitan (M)

Carlsbad Caverns

Carrizozo (M)

Casados Ranch

Cave in Manzano Mountains

Chupadera Arroyo

Circus Route, Dry Cave

Cochiti Dam

Conkling Cavern

Cornudas Mountains

Corona (M)

Dark Canyon Cave

Datil (M)

Davies Tank

Delaware River

Deming (M)

Denton Ranch (E)

Dogie Jones Ranch (M)

Domingo

Doolittle Cave

Dry Cave Introduction

Dry Gulch

East Cave

East Isleta

Eighteenmile Bend

Encino Blowouts

Entrance Chamber, Dry Cave

Escodilla Acres

Estancia Sand Pit (M)

Fite Ranch

Floyd

Folsom Site

Fort Stanton (M)

Fort Sumner (M)

Fosberg Cave

Fourmile Draw (M)

Fresnal Canyon (E)

Galisteo

Gallina Arroyo

Gobernador

Green's Gap (M)

Guadalupe Mesa

Guadalupita Canyon

Gutierrez Gravel Pit

Harris' Pocket, Dry Cave

Hatch Cemetery

Hells Canyon

Hermits Cave

Hobbs

Howell's Ridge Cave

Hueco Mountains

Hueco Tanks

Human Corridor, Dry Cave

Indian Well Wilderness

Inman Gravel Pit

Isleta

Isleta Cave No. 1

Isleta Cave No. 2

Jal

Jemez Springs

Keen Spring

Kelly Canyon

Khulo Site

Kilbourne Hole

Kirtland AFB

La Union

Laguna (E)

Lake Estancia

Lake Otero

Lake San Agustín

Las Vegas (M)

Lazy E Ranch

Lechuguilla Cave

Lemitar

Lordsburg Draw (M)

Los Lunas

Lost Valley, Dry Cave

Loving

Lucy Site

Manzano Cave

Marley Ranch

Marmot Cave

Martinez Gravel Pit

Mastodon

McCullum Ranch

Mesa Redonda

Mesas Mojinas

Mesa Vibora

Matanza Arroyo

Milagro (M)

Milnesand

Mockingbird Gap

Model T

Moriarty

Mountain Breeze

Muskox Cave

Nash Draw

Navaho Lake

New La Bajada Hill

Ojo Caliente

Omega Cave

Oso Cave

Pajarito Creek (M)

Pajarito Springs (E)

Palomas Creek Cave

Pecos River Near Roswell (E)

Peña Blanca (M)

Pendejo Cave

Perico Creek

Picuris (M)

Pink Panther Cave

Piñon

Pit N & W Animal Fair, Dry Cave

Placitas

Plaza Larga Creek

Quarai (M)

Quay (M)

Rancho Creek

Raton

Rehoboth

Rick's Cenote, Dry Cave

Rincon Arroyo (E)

Rio Conchas

Robledo Cave

Rocky Arroyo No. 1 UTEP 78

Room of the Vanishing Floor, Dry Cave

Roswell

Ruidoso

Sabertooth Camel Maze, Dry Cave

Sacramento Mountains (M)

San Antonio Cave (SAM Cave)

San Antonio

San Francisco River

San Jon

San Simon Sink

Sandia Cave

Sandia Gravel Pit

Santa Cruz

Santa Fe (M)

Santo Domingo

Sapillo Creek

Sheep Camp Shelter

Shelter Cave

Shelton Canyon

SLP 1, Sierra de los Pinos/Palo Duro Canyon

Silver Canyon

Slaughter Canyon Cave

Snow Ranch

Socorro

South Chimney, Dry Cave

Stalag 17, Dry Cave

Starvation Draw

Steins

Stolle Mammoth Site (M)

Taiban Creek

Tank Trap Wash

Test Trench II (TT II), Dry Cave

Thoreau

Three Rivers

Tiffany Canyon

Tijeras Arroyo

Tome

Tortugas Mountain Gravel Pit

Tramperos Creek

Trapped Rock Draw

Tree Spring

Tucumcari

Tularosa Cave

Twenty Five Mile Stream

U-Bar Cave

Vadito (M)

Variadero

Virden

VLA

West Fork Kutz Canyon

Western Mobile Gravel Pit

Wetherly

White Lake

White Mesa

White Rock

Whut Cave

Witch Cave

Wylde Cave

X-Bar-X Ranch

Yeso Creek

Youngsville (M)

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Last Update: 1 Feb 2014