New Bath County Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Virginia (38.1° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Grady, C. Baker, D. A. Hubbard and P. Lucas. 2006. A Pleistocene tapir from a Virginia cave. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 68(3):174 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 105120: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 15.02.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Chiroptera -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
 Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis
"Tapirus veroensis" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis Sellards 1918 tapir
Reptilia
 Testudines -
Testudines indet. Batsch 1788 turtle