Little Bear Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Colbert County, Alabama (34.7° N, 87.8° W: paleocoordinates 34.7° N, 87.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. R. Womochel and W. S. Barnett. 1980. The Pleistocene vertebrate assemblage of Little Bear Cave, Colbert County, Alabama. Field trips for the Southeastern Section of the Geological Society of America 69-76 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 84195: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 24.09.2008, edited by John Alroy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gnathostomata
  -
Amphibia
 Salientia -
 Caudata - Urodela
Urodela indet. salamander
Mammalia
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
listed as Weotoma floridana
Reithrodontomys sp. Giglioli 1874 harvest mouse
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Arvicolinae indet. Gray 1821 vole
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Theriamorpha - Soricidae
Blarina carolinensis Bachman 1837 southern short-tailed shrew
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Myotis lucifugus Le Conte 1831 vesper bat
Nycticeius humeralis Rafinesque 1818 evening bat
Pipistrellus sp. Kaup 1829 pipistrelle bat
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus sp. Linnaeus 1758 horse
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus cf. fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780 black bear
Reptilia
 Squamata -
Squamata indet. squamates