Harrodsburg Crevice (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Monroe County, Indiana (39.0° N, 86.5° W: paleocoordinates 39.0° N, 86.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Primary reference: P. W. Parmalee, P. J. Munson, and J. E. Guilday. 1978. The Pleistocene mammalian fauna of Harrodsburg Crevice, Monroe County, Indiana. NSS Bulletin 40:64-75 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 20600: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 26.03.1995
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• independently reported by Volz 1977
Sangamonian, and previously reported radiocarbon ages are spurious: Munson et al. 1980
Sangamonian, and previously reported radiocarbon ages are spurious: Munson et al. 1980
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Mammalia | |
Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole | |
Urocyon cinereoargenteus Schreber 1775 gray fox
Canis cf. latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758 weasel | |
Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk
Spilogale cf. putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk | |
Ursus cf. americanus Pallas 1780 black bear | |
Lynx cf. rufus Schreber 1777 bobcat | |
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Equus cf. complicatus Leidy 1858 horse | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit | |
Synaptomys cooperi, Neotoma cf. floridana, Arvicolinae indet., "Pedomys cf. ochrogaster" = Microtus ochrogaster1
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Neotoma cf. floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat | |
Marmota monax Linnaeus 1758 groundhog | |
Geomys cf. bursarius Shaw 1800 plains pocket gopher |