Powder Mill Creek Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Shannon County, Missouri (37.2° N, 91.2° W: paleocoordinates 37.2° N, 91.2° W)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; poorly lithified, silty, sandy sandstone
• Flow of water supply into cave with repeated cycles of deposition and abrasion after formation of cave in parent rock.
Size class: macrofossils
• Collection of single specimen with few associated parts but visible general orientation.
Primary reference: E. C. Galbreath. 1964. A dire wolf skeleton and Powder Mill Creek Cave, Missouri. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 57(4):224-242more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 236672: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Rebecca Turcios on 20.10.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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| Mammalia | |
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf | |