Island Ford Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Alleghany County, Virginia (37.1° N, 81.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.0° N, 81.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

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

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: F. Grady. 1995. The First Record of Arctodus Simus from Virginia. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 58 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 104758: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 09.02.2011, edited by Mark Uhen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Hubbard and Grady entered by Carrie Bio 334
unclassified
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Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Mammuthus sp. Brookes 1828 mammoth
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis spp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
 Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx cf. rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat
 Carnivora - Canidae
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Lontra canadensis, "Mustela cf. vison" = Neogale vison, "Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata, Mustela nivalis
Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776 North American river otter
"Mustela cf. vison" = Neogale vison Schreber 1777 mink
"Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata Lichtenstein 1831 long-tailed weasel
Mustela nivalis Linnaeus 1766 least weasel
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
 Carnivora - Ursidae
Arctodus simus Cope 1879 giant short-faced bear
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer
 Soricomorpha - Talpidae
Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole
cf. Condylura cristata Linnaeus 1758 star-nosed mole
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Blarina cf. brevicauda Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758 long-tailed shrew
Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792 cinereus shrew
"Sorex hoyi" = Microsorex hoyi Baird 1858 American pygmy shrew
Sorex fumeus Miller 1895 smoky shrew
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Marmota monax Linnaeus 1758 groundhog
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk
Glaucomys cf. volans Linnaeus 1758 southern flying squirrel
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus Erxleben 1777 American red squirrel
 Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
"Neotoma magister" = Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Phenacomys intermedius Merriam 1889 western heather vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Microtus chrotorrhinus Miller 1894 rock vole
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Microtus cf. ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Microtus cf. xanthognathus Leach 1815 taiga vole
 Rodentia - Zapodidae
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse
Napaeozapus insignis Miller 1891 woodland jumping mouse
 Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver