Sabertooth Camel Maze

Sabertooth Camel Maze UTEP 5

NM: EDDY CO.: DRY CAVE

General Description.— known level east and south of the North-South Fissure (rear of cave). Tracing upslope, reach Balcony above Lost Valley (Loc. 2). Deposits appear waterlain.

Comments.— 2 and UTEP 5 lumped together in Harris (1985).

Age.—¹⁴Carbon date of 25,160 ± 1,730 (TX-1775) on bone carbonates.

Publications.— 1978, Harris 1985; 1987; Magish and Harris 1976; Moodie and Van Devender 1979; Van Devender, Moodie, and Harris 1976.

Fauna.—

REPTILIA

• Geochelone wilsoni
• Gopherus agassizi
• Lacertilia

AVES

• Breagyps clarki
• Coragyps occidentalis
• Meleagris crassipes
• Cf. Callipepla squamata
• Cf. Zenaida macroura
• Corvus neomexicanus

MAMMALIA

• Cratogeomys castanops
• Thomomys bottae
• Dipodomys
• Neotoma albigula
• Neotoma cf. pygmaea
• Aztlanolagus agilis
• Lepus californicus
• Sylvilagus audubonii
• Sylvilagus cf. nuttallii
• Canis dirus
• Canis lupus
• Vulpes cf. velox
• Ursus ?
• Bassariscus astutus
• Felis concolor
• Lynx ?
• Nyctinomops macrotis
• Camelops cf. hesternus
• Hemiauchenia
• Cf. Odocoileus
• Capromeryx

Last Update: 3 December 1998.