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Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle PleistoceneThe Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado$
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Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene: The Porcupine Cave Fauna from Colorado

Anthony Barnosky

Print publication date: 2004

Print ISBN-13: 9780520240827

Published to California Scholarship Online: March 2012

DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520240827.001.0001

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Irvingtonian Mammals from the Badger Room in Porcupine Cave: Age, Taphonomy, Climate, and Ecology

Irvingtonian Mammals from the Badger Room in Porcupine Cave: Age, Taphonomy, Climate, and Ecology

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(p.294) (p.295) Twenty-Two Irvingtonian Mammals from the Badger Room in Porcupine Cave: Age, Taphonomy, Climate, and Ecology
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Biodiversity Response to Climate Change in the Middle Pleistocene
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Alan B. Shabel

Anthony D. Barnosky

Tonya Van Leuvan

Faysal Bibi

Matthew H. Kaplane

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University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520240827.003.0022

This chapter describes fossil deposits of mammals in the Badger Room of Porcupine Cave. The Badger Room is a small chamber in the Porcupine Cave system located approximately 25 m from the modern entrance to the cave. The Badger Room mammal fauna is very diverse; it contains abundant lagomorph, rodent, and carnivore remains. Some of the specimens were used to explore the paleoclimate of the region surrounding the cave. The climate spaces occupied by each species were assumed to encompass the physiological tolerance limits of each taxon with regard to temperature and moisture. The chapter also used autecological estimates for habitat reconstruction and analysis of the community structure of the mammal fauna.

Keywords:   mammals, Badger Room, lagomorph, rodent, carnivore, paleoclimate, autecological estimates, habitat reconstruction

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