Where: Pendleton County, West Virginia (38.6° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 79.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "The upper 90 cm... contain a fairly typical late Pleistocene fauna" but there is at least some material at multiple points "from 120-21 cm"; there is a date of "29,400 +/- 1,700 B.P." apparently around the 60 cm level and "it seems likely that the lower levels... are early to middle Rancholabrean in age"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by F. Grady in 1979-1982; reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,
• "The deposit... was collected in 30 cm intervals to a depth of 220 cm and wet-screened through 5 mm and 1.5 mm mesh"
Primary reference: F. Grady. 1984. A Pleistocene occurrence of Geomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) in West Virginia. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:161-163 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 93332: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010, edited by Margaret Shalap and Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Tamias striatus4, Eutamias cf. minimus1, Marmota monax4, Spermophilus tridecemlineatus, Glaucomys sabrinus4, Glaucomys cf. volans4, Sciurus corolinensis4, Tamiasciurus hudsonicus4
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
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"Neotoma magister" = Neotoma floridana4, Neofiber cf. alleni4, Peromyscus sp.4, "Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis1, Synaptomys cooperi4, Phenacomys intermedius4, Microtus pennsylvanicus4, Microtus cf. ochrogaster4, Microtus pinetorum4, Microtus xanthognathus, Microtus chrotorrhinus4, Ondatra ziebethicus4, "Clethrionomys gaperi" = Myodes4, Dicrostonyx hudsonius
Microtus xanthognathus Leach 1815 taiga vole
Dicrostonyx hudsonius Pallas 1778 Ungava collared lemming | |
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Ochotona sp. Link 1795 pika | |
Blarina brevicauda4, Sorex arcticus, Sorex hoyi4, Sorex cinereus4, Sorex fumeus4, Sorex palustris4, Sorex dispar4
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 arctic shrew | |
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Plecotus sp.2, Myotis sp.2, Myotis leibii4, Myotis ? grisescens2, Lasiurus borealis2, Pipistrellus subflavus2, Eptesicus fuscus2
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"Martes pennanti" = Pekania pennanti4, Martes americana4, "Mustela vison" = Neogale vison4, Mustela armines4, Mustela cf. fenata4, Mustela nivalis4, Taxidea taxus
Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 American badger | |
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