UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



BULLETIN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 



GEOLOGY 



THE PLEISTOCENE FAUNA OF HAWVER CAVE 



BY 



CHESTEE STOCK 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction 462 



History of previous investigations 463 



Location of Hawver Cave — ~ 464 



Relation of cave to topography 464 



Preservation of vertebrate remains 466 



Occurrence of human remains - — - 466 



Mammalian fauna 467 



Comparison of California cave faunas — 469 



Comparison of the Hawver Cave fauna with the faunas from Port Kennedy 



Deposit and Conard Fissure 472 



Comparison with Eancho La Brea fauna 474 



Comparison with Eeeent fauna 475 



Ecological considerations 477 



Description of material 478 



Insectivora _ 478 



Scapanus, possibly n. sp 478 



Carnivora 478 



Canidae - _ 478 



Canis, near dirus Leidy 478 



Canis ochropus Eschscholtz 479 



Machaerorlontinae 480 



Smilodon(f), sp 480 



Felinae 482 



Felis hawveri, n. sp 482 



Felis, probably n.sp 483 



Rodentia .-. _ 486 



Neotoma fuscipes Baird 486 



Microtus, sp 487 



Lepus, probably n. sp 487 



Edentata 488 



Mylodon harlani Owen 489 



Megalonyx( ?), sp 491 



Nothrotherium shastense hawveri, n. subsp 492 



Ungulata 512 



Euceratherium collinum (?) Sinclair and Furlong 512 



Bison, sp 514 



Summary 514 



