Where: Phelps County, Missouri (37.6° N, 91.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 91.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Cave sediments; MVC (Milton Varney Collection) locality details are not published
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float),
• Specimens are curated at the Illinois State Museum
Primary reference: B. W. Schubert. 2003. A late Pleistocene and early Holocene mammalian fauna from Little Beaver Cave, Central Ozarks, Missouri. Pp. 149-200 in Ice Age Cave Faunas of North America (B. W. Schubert, J. I. Mead, and R. W. Graham, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [C. Bell/C. Bell]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63563: authorized by Chris Bell, entered by Chris Bell on 16.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Dasypus cf. bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
Megalonyx jeffersonii Desmarest 1822 Jefferson's ground sloth | |
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit | |
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat | |
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
cf. Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775 marmot | |
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Mylohyus nasutus Leidy 1868 peccary | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata
"Mustela cf. frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel | |
Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
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