Bison Chamber

Dry Cave: Bison Chamber UTEP 4

NM: EDDY CO.: DRY CAVE. 1280 m.

General Description.— at the base of a debris slope from Bison Sink; below Boulder Room. Test Trench II (TT II), in the debris slope farther north on a balcony of Balcony Room originally was considered part of this site, but later split off and given a new site number (UTEP 54).

Age.—>14,470 and <10,730 BP on basis of stratigraphic relationships with radiocarbon-dated sites (UTEP 54, UTEP 6).

Publications.— 1979; Harris, 1970, 1977b, 1978, 1985 (reference in Harris, 1973, refers to Loc. 54, not Loc. 4); Harris and Porter, 1980; Holman, 1970; Metcalf, 1970.

Fauna.—

• Ambystoma tigrinum
• Scaphiopus bombifrons
• Scaphiopus multiplicatus
• Bufo woodhousei woodhousei
• Rana blairi/pipiens

• Crotaphytus collaris
• Phrynosoma cornutum
• Phrynosoma douglasii
• Sceloporus undulatus
• Elaphe guttata
• Salvadora
• Thamnophis proximus
• Crotalus atrox

• Eremophila alpestris
• Sialia
• Calamospiza melanocorys
• Icterinae
• Fringillidae
• Carpodacus

• Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
• Thomomys bottae
• Thomomys cf. talpoides
• Dipodomys spectabilis
• Perognathus (Perognathus)
• Neotoma cinerea
• Neotoma ? micropus
• Peromyscus leucopus
• Peromyscus cf. maniculatus
• Peromyscus cf. truei
• Reithrodontomys
• Lemmiscus curtatus
• Microtus mexicanus
• Microtus ochrogaster
• Lepus
• Sylvilagus nuttallii
• Vulpes cf. velox
• Notiosorex crawfordi
• Sorex merriami
• Eptesicus fuscus
• Myotis lucifugus
• Myotis cf. rectidentis
• Myotis velifer
• Plecotus
• Hemiauchenia
• Antilocapra americana
• Bison cf. antiquus
• Equus cf. alaskae
• Equus laurentius

Last Update: 24 August 1998.