Sample name: Extinction Cave

Sample aka: Sibun Cave

Reference: C. S. Churcher. 2019. Pleistocene mammals from Extinction Cave, Belize. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 57:366-376 [ER 3400]

Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave

Habitat comments: the sample includes "mammalian bones and teeth, calcareous cave earth, and bone breccia... The deposit that contained the bones and teeth is a typical brownish-buff, fine-grained powdery limestone cave earth lacking any stratification, sand grains, or pebbles... The fossils may have accumulated on a dry cave floor by the mixing of small bone fragments derived from carnivore chewing and feces, mixed with uningested larger bone fragments and teeth from animals that died in or were brought in as prey into the cave, and cave earth stirred by animal feet in a dry floor deposit. No microvertebrate or invertebrate fossils were recovered"
additional material includes chert flakes, sherds, pottery, and other "archaeological artifacts" that may or may not be associated with the fossils

Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,other large mammals

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 26 specimens

Sampled by: L. McNatt

Years: 1984

Sampling comments: collected on 4 May 1984

Sample number: 3782

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-09 14:25:58

Modified: 2021-06-09 04:25:58