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This book gathers the findings of a number of studies on North American cave paleontology. Although not intended to be all-inclusive, Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America contains contributions that range from overviews of the significance of cave fossils to reports about new localities and studies of specific vertebrate groups. These essays describe how cave remains record the evolutionary patterns of organisms and their biogeography, how they can help reconstruct past ecosystems and climatic fluctuations, how they provide an important record of the evolution of modern ecosystems, and even how some of these caves contain traces of human activity. The book’s eclectic nature should appeal to students, professional and amateur paleontologists, biologists, geologists, speleologists, and cavers. The contributors are Ticul Alvarez, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Christopher J. Bell, Larry L. Coats, Jennifer Glennon, Wulf Gose, Frederick Grady, Russell Wm. Graham, Timothy H. Heaton, Carmen J. Jans-Langel, Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr., H. Gregory McDonald, Jim I. Mead, Oscar J. Polaco, Blaine W. Schubert, Holmes A. Semken, Jr., and Alisa J. Winkler. An up-to-date exploration of vertebrate cave life during the Ice Age. Preliminary Table of Contents: List of Contributors Preface 1. Sloth Remains from North American Caves and Associated Karst Features H. Gregory McDonald 2. The Late Wisconsin Vertebrate History of Prince of Wales Island, Southeast Alaska Timothy H. Heaton and Fredrick Grady 3. Arvicoline Rodents from Screaming Neotoma Cave, Southern Colorado Plateau, Apache County, Arizona, with Comments on the Pleistocene Biogeography of Lemmiscus curtatus Christopher J. Bell and Jennifer Glennon 4. Late Pleistocene Faunas from Caves in the Eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona Jim I. Mead, Larry L. Coats, and Blaine W. Schubert 5. Pleistocene Tapir from Hill Top Cave, Trigg County, Kentucky, and a Review of Plio-Pleistocene Tapirs of North America and Their Paleoecology Russell Wm. Graham 6. Paleoecological Interpretation of Late Holocene and Late Pleistocene Micromammal Faunules from Duhme Cave, Eastern Iowa Carmen M. Jans-Langel and Holmes A. Semken, Jr. 7. A Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Mammalian Fauna from Little Beaver Cave, Central Ozarks, Missouri Blaine W. Schubert 8. A History of Paleontological Investigations of Quaternary Cave Deposits on the Edwards Plateau, Central Texas Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. 9. Mammalian Fauna and Paleomagnetics of the Middle Irvingtonian (Early Pleistocene) Fyllan Cave and Kitchen Door Localities, Travis County, Texas Alisa J. Winkler and Wulf Gose 10. A Preliminary Report of the Late Quaternary Mammal Fauna from Loltn Cave, Yucatn, Mexico Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales and Ticul Alvarez (deceased) 11. Caves and the Pleistocene Vertebrate Paleontology of Mexico Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales and Oscar J. Polaco Index Contributors Ticul Alvarez (deceased), Laboratorio de Cordados Terrestres, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biolgicas, I.P.N., Plan de Ayala y Carpio, 11340 Mxico, D.F. Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Laboratorio de Paleozoologa, Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia, 06060 Mxico, D.F. Christopher J. Bell, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. Larry L. Coats, Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology, Quaternary Sciences Program and Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Jennifer Glennon, Department of Anthropology, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. Wulf Gose, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78705. Russell Wm. Graham, Department of Earth and Space Sciences, Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, CO 80205. Timothy H. Heaton, Department of Earth Sciences, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD 57069. Frederick Grady, Department of Paleobiology, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. Carmen J. Jans-Langel, Department of Geosciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr., Department of Geological Sciences and Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory, Texas Museum of Science and History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712. H. Gregory McDonald, Geological Resources Division, National Park Service, Denver, CO 80225. Jim I. Mead, Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology, Quaternary Sciences Program and Department of Geology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Oscar J. Polaco, Biodiversity Programs Office, National Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560. Blaine W. Schubert, Environmental Dynamics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, and Geology Section, Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL 62703. Holmes A. Semken, Jr., Department of Geosciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242. Alisa J. Winkler, Department of Geological Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, and Department of Cell Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390.
