Eagle Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, West Virginia (38.8° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 79.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; siltstone

• All three fossil sites were in red-brown "cave earth," a highly oxidized silt-like solution residue from the parent caves intermingled with frost wedged spalls from cave mouth erosion.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. E. Guilday and H. W. Hamilton. 1978. Ecological Significance of Displaced Boreal Mammals in West Virginia Caves. Journal of Mammalogy 59(1):176-181 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 123868: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 01.02.2012, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota monax Linnaeus 1758 groundhog
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Glaucomys sabrinus Shaw 1801 northern flying squirrel
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus Erxleben 1777 American red squirrel
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
"Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis Richardson 1828 northern bog lemming
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Phenacomys intermedius Merriam 1889 western heather vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
M. pennsylvanicus or chrotorrhinus
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Microtus xanthognathus1 Leach 1815 taiga vole
Microtus chrotorrhinus Miller 1894 rock vole
Ondatra annectens1 Brown 1908 muskrat
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
Dicrostonyx hudsonius1 Pallas 1778 Ungava collared lemming
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus spp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
or Lepus spp.
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Cryptotis parva Say 1823 North American least shrew
Blarina brevicauda Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew
"Sorex sp." = Sorex Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 arctic shrew
"Microsorex sp." = Sorex2 Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Sorex cf. fumeus Miller 1895 smoky shrew
 Theriamorpha - Talpidae
Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Martes americana Kerr 1792 American marten
Reptilia
 Serpentes -