FossilMustela nigripesfrom Snake Creek Burial Cave, Nevada, and Implications for Black-Footed Ferret Paleoecology

Two New Late Quaternary Avifaunas from the East-Central Great Basin with the Description of a New Species of Falco

“…Three radiometric dates were obtained on the deposits of bat guano (7860 ± 130 BP), wood (9460 ± 60 BP), and an Equus second phalange (15,100 ± 700 BP; Mead and Mead 1989); 4 new radiocarbon dates on 2 species of birds are presented here and indicate much older ages for some of the deposits at this site. Until now, only the lizards, mustelids, and microtine rodents have been described in detail (Mead and Mead 1989, Mead et al 1989, Bell and Mead 1998, Fox et al 2017). All fossil material from this site is deposited at The Mammoth Site, Hot Springs, South Dakota.…”

“…and horse (Equus sp.) in addition to several living extralimital species (Mustela nigripes, M. nivalis, and Gulo gulo; Fox et al 2017) that previously had not been reported from Nevada or the Great Basin . Three radiometric dates were obtained on the deposits of bat guano (7860 ± 130 BP), wood (9460 ± 60 BP), and an Equus second phalange (15,100 ± 700 BP; ; 4 new radiocarbon dates on 2 species of birds are presented here and indicate much older ages for some of the deposits at this site.…”