QUATERNARY VERTEBRATE SITES: SOUTHWESTERN USA AND NORTHWESTERN MEXICO
New Mexican site information has been gathered from the literature (especially Morgan and Lucas, 2005 for New Mexican open sites; that is,
non-cave sites) and personal experience with many of the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ collection sites.
Each site has a brief location description, many have comments, and a list of taxa recovered
from the site is given. The "Literature" does not pretend to be complete, but should be
sufficient to allow the reader to access further information. The literature source for each taxon
is not given here since sources are available in the taxonomic accounts.
Where the taxonomy has changed, the currently accepted names are listed; the taxonomic accounts
include synonyms that have been used in the Pleistocene faunal literature. Taxa represented in the
¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ Paleobiology Collection that have either not appeared in the literature or have appeared only
in lists without being attributed are indicated by the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓÆµ acronym.
Some of the sites have only one or two taxa at the generic level recorded; sites documenting the
presence of unidentified horses (Equus sp.) or of mammoths (Mammuthus sp. and
Mammuthus columbi) are of interest in documenting the distribution of these genera, but such
sites are of distinctly lesser general utility than sites with rarer taxa and sites where there is
a larger fauna. To save the reader the necessity of opening such sites when more specific data are
desired, these sites will be marked "E" where only Equus sp. occurs and
"M" where only Mammuthus sp. or M. columbi occurs (in many cases where the
original publication lists Mammuthus sp., M. columbi is listed in this work—see
the Mammuthus account).
As with other portions of this work, many sites will be updated through time; the
"Update" pages will note when significant changes occur.