WY: Albany Co. 2439 m
General Description.—Guilday et al. 1967: On S rim of Wallrock Canyon, 21 mi NE Laramie, SE ¬ Sec. 36, T19N, R73W, 105° 31' W, 41° 34' N. On western slope of Laramie Mts., the canyon opening west into the Laramie Basin. Elevation 8000 ft, 400 ft above canyon floor and 100 ft below rim. The cave is shallow and faces north. Accumulation apparently slow. Loess-like fill unstratified and homogeneous. Three other caves in canyon produced bone (superficial collecting only— excavations).
Environment.—Guilday et al. 1967: The Laramies rise to 8500 ft, 1500 ft above level of the Laramie Basin. They are dry and, except for a few scattered pines, treeless. Streams draining, like Wallrock Creek, are intermittent, but sustain strips of sparse meadow along their banks. A small perennial spring is in the wall of the canyon below the cave itself. Cary (1917) puts the Laramies in the Canadian Life Zone, the basin in the Transition. Hudsonian and Alpine life zones occur no closer than 50 mi W in the Snowy Mts. of the Medicine Bow Range. The Laramie Mts. are an eastern spur of the Medicine Bows, connected at the south end of the Laramie Basin by Canadian Life Zone uplands.
Age.—Mixed provenience, late Pleistocene/Holocene. Guilday et al. 1967.
Comments.—Guilday et al. 1967: Original excavations by Agogino in 1963. Description of cave with maps, etc., and a discussion of the archaeological material from the upper levels and description of matrix in Gebhard et al. (1964). Later excavations specifically for Pleistocene fossils in 1966. Guilday et al. 1967: Faunal lists are given for the other three caves investigated, but no reason to believe they are Pleistocene.
Publications.—Anderson 1974; Gebhard, Agogino, and Haynes 1964; (Guilday and Parmalee 1972); (*Guilday, Hamilton, and Adam 1967; Harris 1985); Kurtén and Anderson 1980.
Fauna.—
Last Update: 7 September 1998.