Shelter Cave is an archaeological and paleontological site located in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
It was originally excavated by the Los Angeles County Museum (LACM) c. 1929 (LACMVP site number 1010).
Brattstrom (1964:95) gives several quotes from the original field notes: Sloth in place, S-5-4 in upper guano layer and in direct association with bits of knots of vegetative material.
Fosberg (1936) lists plants identified from Shelter Cave deposits, but without provenance data; they likely are Holocene.
Thompson et al. (1980) point out that vegetation from pre-full-glacial middens from the shelter are more mesic than the terminal Pleistocene ones that lack oak, and pinyon pine is rare.
UTEP indicates specimens are deposited in the Resource Collections of the Laboratory for Environmental Biology, Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens, University of Texas at El Paso.
The Los Angeles County Museum has a large collection from Shelter Cave, including the type of Stockoceros conklingi.