Where: Greenbrier County, West Virginia (37.7° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 80.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "A carbon 14 date of 21040 ± 760 years was obtained from the second site, indicating a late Pleistocene age."
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. Grady. 2000. The sabertooth cat Smilodon from West Virginia caves. Annual Convention Program - National Speleological Society 2000:201 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125085: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 03.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Smilodon fatalis Leidy 1868 saber-toothed cat
Smilodon gracilis Cope 1880 saber-toothed cat |