Shenandoah Caverns (Pleistocene to of the United States)

Where: Shenandoah County, Virginia (38.7° N, 78.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 78.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

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

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

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 104691: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Carnivora - Procyonidae
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon
 Rodentia - Sciuridae
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867 cottontail rabbit
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat