UT: MILLARD CO. 1760 M.
General Description.—4.8 km (3 mi) NW Gandy, UT; 0.9 km E UT-NV state line (Sec. 30, T15S, R19W, Salt Lake base line ∓ meridian), in NE side of Gandy Mtn. (outlier on NE edge Snake Range). Elev. 1760 m (5775 ft), 195 m above Lake Bonneville at max. Ca. 150 m of passage. Mead et al. (1989): originally had a small crawlway entrance. The cave is 1 km away from and 195 m above the maximum level of Lake Bonneville. Cave deposits accumulated from packrats and, possibly, storm runoff. Fossiliferous sediments shallow and unstratified. Faunal remains curated at Brigham Young Univ., Dept. Geology; herpetofauna, catalogue numbers 7974-8217. No human evidence. Mammals by Heaton (1985); preliminary report by Heaton (1984); herps by Mead et al. (1989); birds (in press) by Emslie and Heaton, J. Arizona-Nevada Acad. Sci. Miller (1982) with list of general. Heaton (1985) points out that the fauna is not datable by superposition, etc., because of the shallow deposits, with some extinct forms on the surface.
Comments.—Type locality of Brachyprotoma brevimala Heaton 1985.
Age.—Date from at least 23,000 BP (radiocarbon) to late Holocene. Four dates on large-mammal bones run 12,980 + 2,680 -2,000; 18,600 + 2,000 - 1,600; 18,820 + 1510 - 1,270; >23,000 BP. Recent may be mixed in.
Publications.—Emslie and Heaton in press; Heaton 1984, 1985; Mead et al.1989; Miller 1982.
Last Update: 25 May 1998.