A small mammalian fauna is recorded from Extinction Cave (also called Sibun Cave), east of Belmopan, on the Sibun River, Belize, Central America. The animals recognized are armadillo (†Dasypus bellus), American lion (†Panthera atrox), jaguar (Panthera onca), puma or mountain lion (Puma concolor), Florida spectacled bear (†Tremarctos floridanus), javelina or collared peccary (Pecari tajacu), llama (Camelidae indet., †?Palaeolama mirifica), red brocket deer (Mazama americana), bison (Bison sp.) and Mexican half-ass (†Equus conversidens); sabre-toothed cat (†Smilodon fatalis) may also be represented. “†” indicates an extinct taxon. Bear and bison are absent from the region today. The bison record is one of the more southerly known. The bear record is almost the most westerly known and a first for Central America.
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May 23, 2019
Pleistocene mammals from Extinction Cave, Belize Available to Purchase
C.S. Churcher
Department of Zoology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2C6, Canada.
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Publisher: Canadian Science Publishing
Received:
17 Jul 2018
Accepted:
08 May 2019
First Online:
14 Mar 2020
Online ISSN: 1480-3313
Print ISSN: 0008-4077
Published by NRC Research Press
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (2020) 57 (3): 366–376.
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Received:
17 Jul 2018
Accepted:
08 May 2019
First Online:
14 Mar 2020
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CitationC.S. Churcher; Pleistocene mammals from Extinction Cave, Belize. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 2019;; 57 (3): 366–376. doi: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjes-2018-0178
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Artiodactyla
- Belize
- biometry
- Bison
- Bovidae
- Camelidae
- Carnivora
- Cenozoic
- Central America
- Cervidae
- Chordata
- Edentata
- Equidae
- Equus
- Eutheria
- Felidae
- Fissipeda
- Hippomorpha
- Mammalia
- morphology
- paleoecology
- Panthera
- Perissodactyla
- Pleistocene
- Quaternary
- Rancholabrean
- Ruminantia
- Smilodon
- statistical analysis
- teeth
- Tetrapoda
- Theria
- Tylopoda
- upper Pleistocene
- Ursidae
- Vertebrata
- Xenarthra
- Equus conversidens
- Smilodon fatalis
- Dasypus bellus
- Tremarctos floridanus
- Mazama americana
- Palaeolama mirifica
- Pecari tajacu
- Extinction Cave
- La Democracia Belize
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