Skyline Caverns (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Warren County, Virginia (39.0° N, 78.2° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 78.2° 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

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 104694: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 08.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
 Soricomorpha - Soricidae
Microsorex hoyi Baird 1858 American pygmy shrew
 Artiodactyla - Tayassuidae
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848 peccary