LATE PLEISTOCENE LIZARDS FROM FOWLKES CAVE, CULBERSON COUNTY, TEXAS

被引：4
作者：
Parmley, Dennis [1 ]
Bahn, Jessica Rackett [1 ]
机构：
[1] Georgia Coll & State Univ, Dept Biol & Environm Sci, Milledgeville, GA 31061 USA
来源：
SOUTHWESTERN NATURALIST | 2012年 / 57卷 / 04期
基金：
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词：
CROTAPHYTIDAE; IGUANIDAE; OSTEOLOGY; SQUAMATA; REPTILIA; MEXICO;
D O I：
10.1894/0038-4909-57.4.435
中图分类号：
X176 [生物多样性保护];
学科分类号：
090705 ;
摘要：
Fossils of five or more genera and six species of lizards were identified from late Pleistocene sediments of Fowlkes Cave, Culberson County, Texas. The most abundant species was the roundtail horned lizard Phrynosoma modestum (45 individuals), a common lizard in the Recent Chihuahuan Desert, but the greatest number of fossils represented >= 83 individuals of Phrynosomatidae genus and species indeterminate. Fossils identified to at least the generic level appear to represent xeric-adapted lizards that occur in habitats typical of the Chihuahuan Desert that occur around the cave today.
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页码：435 / 441
页数：7
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