Patton Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Monroe County, West Virginia (37.5° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 80.2° W)
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When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; silty claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: F. Grady. 1988. A preliminary account of the Pleistocene mammals from Patton Cave, Monroe County, West Virginia. The National Speleological Society Bulletin 50(1):9-16 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125941: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 27.03.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pipistrellus subflavus Cuvier 1832 eastern pipistrelle bat
Lasiurus borealis Muller 1776 hairy-tailed bat
Myotis keeni vesper bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
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Blarina brevicauda Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792 arctic shrew
Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792 cinereus shrew
Microsorex hoyi Baird 1858 American pygmy shrew | |
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Condylura cristata Linnaeus 1758 star-nosed mole
Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole | |
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Martes americana Kerr 1792 American marten
Taxidea taxus Schreber 1778 American badger | |
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Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
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Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
Peromyscus sp., Phenacomys intermedis, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Microtus xanthognathus, Clethrionomys gapperi, "Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis, Neotoma floridana
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Microtus xanthognathus Leach 1815 taiga vole
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
"Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis Richardson 1828 northern bog lemming
Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat | |
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Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse | |
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Tamiasciurus hudsonicus Erxleben 1777 American red squirrel
Marmota monax Linnaeus 1758 groundhog | |
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Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |