Loop Creek Quarry Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Russell County, Virginia (37.0° N, 82.0° W: paleocoordinates 37.0° N, 82.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: bone collector
Primary reference: R. Eshelman and F. Grady. 1986. Quaternary vertebrate localities of Virginia and their avian and mammalian fauna. Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Publication 75:43-70 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 104679: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.02.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole | |
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Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
cf. Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
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Martes cf. americana Kerr 1792 American marten | |
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Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx | |
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Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |