Cheetah Room (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Pendleton County, West Virginia (38.7° N, 79.3° W: paleocoordinates 38.7° N, 79.1° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
• said to be Irvingtonian
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: C. A. Repenning and F. Grady. 1988. The microtine rodents of the Cheetah Room fauna, Hamilton Cave, West Virginia, and the spontaneous origin of Synaptomys. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1853(4):1-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju]more details
PaleoDB collection 20286: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.02.1993
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Taxonomic list
• within Hamilton Cave
Hamilton Cave, exact locality not stated: Napaeozapus sp. Martin 1994
Hamilton Cave, exact locality not stated: Napaeozapus sp. Martin 1994
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"Mictomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis2, Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus5, Lasiopodomys deceitensis, Ondatra annectens, Mimomys virginianus, "Pitymys sp." = Microtus3, Phenacomys brachyodus, Synaptomys cooperi5, Atopomys texensis1
Lasiopodomys deceitensis Guthrie and Matthews 1971 vole includes "Microtus paroperarius" according to Repenning 1992
Ondatra annectens Brown 1908 muskrat
Mimomys virginianus Repenning and Grady 1988 vole
Phenacomys brachyodus Repenning and Grady 1988 vole | |