Mystery Cave, Perryville (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Perry County, Missouri (37.7° N, 89.9° W: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 89.6° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

• supposedly found in a "relic of a Cretaceous cave system" cut into Ordovician limestone and revealed by the present-day karst topography, but re-examined and determined to be a Pleistocene cave.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Wallin in 1985

Primary reference: E. C. Galbreath. 1987. A ceratosauroid tarsus (theropod dinosaur) from southeastern Missouri. In J. E. Martin & G. E. Ostrander (eds.), Papers in Vertebrate Paleontology in Honor of Morton Green. Dakoterra 3:14-15 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56573: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 21.11.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Proboscidea -
Proboscidea indet.
Proboscidea indet. Illiger 1811 proboscidean
KUMVP 85471; taxon name refers to "type" of ankle