Where: Monroe County, West Virginia (37.7° N, 80.7° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 80.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Unfortunately, Haynes cave was heavily mined for saltpeter, thus making interpretation of the stratigraphy of the sediments difficult
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: T. Jefferson. 1799. A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4:246-260 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 108095: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 22.04.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth | |
Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary |