Beyond Bison Chamber

Dry Cave: Beyond Bison Chamber UTEP 3

NM: EDDY CO.: DRY CAVE

General Description.— and small rooms off the south end of the Expressway and farther within the cave than Boulder Room and Bison Chamber. Little fill; fossil material on surface and immediately beneath. Possibly Holocene as well as Pleistocene on surface.

Age.— possibly some Holocene.

Publications.— 1970; Holman, 1970.

Fauna.—

• Phrynosoma douglasii
• Crotalus

Aves

• Geomyidae
• Cf. Dipodomys spectabilis
• Perognathus hispidus
• Neotoma albigula
• ? Peromyscus pectoralis
• Sigmodon
• Microtus mexicanus
• Lepus
• Sylvilagus
• Notiosorex crawfordi
• Cf. Myotis rectidentis
• Myotis velifer
• Cf. Myotis velifer
• Antilocapra/Stockoceros
• Cf. Equus laurentius

Last Update: 15 May 1998.