Balcony Room

Dry Cave: Balcony Room UTEP 12

NM: EDDY CO.: DRY CAVE

General Description.—Deposits on floor of Balcony Room. Sources are Bison Sink (via UTEP 54), the modern entrance, and possibly Animal Fair (UTEP 22). Most material except on surface and, possibly, under entrance tunnel overhang, probably Pleistocene. Harris (1993b:280) estimated fill between 20 and 30 cm at "near 12,000 radiocarbon years B.P."

Age.—Holocene and RANCHOLABREAN.

Publications.—Harris 1993b, 1993cb, Holman 1970.

Fauna.—

• Osteichthyes

• Scaphiopus bombifrons
• Bufo punctatus

• Crotaphytus collaris
• Phrynosoma douglasii
• Sceloporus undulatus
• Thamnophis sp. indet.
• Crotalus atrox

• Anas
• Cathartes aura
• Coragyps occidentalis
• Aquila chrysaetos
• Polyborus plancus prelutosus
• Asio flammeus
• Eremophila alpestris
• Corvus corax
• Sialia
• ? Vireonidae
• Icterinae
• Quiscalus

• Marmota flaviventris
• Thomomys bottae
• Onychomys leucogaster
• Peromyscus leucopus
• Reithrodontomys
• Sigmodon
• Lemmiscus curtatus
• Microtus ochrogaster
• Lepus cf. townsendii
• Sylvilagus audubonii
• Cf. Canis
• Vulpes velox
• ? Ursus
• Mustela erminea
• Mephitis mephitis
• Lynx rufus
• Cryptotis parva
• Notiosorex crawfordi
• Sorex merriami
• Sorex monticolus
• Eptesicus fuscus
• Lasiurus
• Myotis velifer
• Plecotus
• Tadarida brasiliensis
• Cf. Capromeryx
• Equus alaskae
• Equus laurentius
• Equus ? occidentalis
• Equus tau

Last Update: 24 August 1998.