Loop Creek Quarry Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Russell County, Virginia (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: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
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| Mammalia | |
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Sciuridae indet. Gray 1821 squirrel
cf. Spermophilus sp. Cuvier 1825 ground squirrel | |
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Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889 vole
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole | |
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Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole
Scalopus aquaticus Linnaeus 1758 eastern mole | |
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Lynx sp. Kerr 1792 lynx | |
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Martes cf. americana Kerr 1792 American marten | |