Where: Anderson County, Tennessee (36.2° N, 84.1° W: paleocoordinates 36.2° N, 83.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: fissure fill
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 1937
• cave discovered after the location was specified to Vess by "an elderly Indian"
•material identified by unnamed researchers at the USNM and AMNH, but apparently not reposited anywhere
Primary reference: A. R. Cahn. 1939. Pleistocene fossils from a cave in Anderson County, Tennessee. Journal of Mammalogy 20(2):248-250 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 74246: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 31.07.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Crotalus sp. Linnaeus 1758 rattlesnake | |
| Mammalia | |
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Didelphis virginiana Kerr 1792 Virginia opossum | |
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Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon | |
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Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat | |
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Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole
Neotoma sp. Say and Ord 1825 pack rat
Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat | |
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Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820 American beaver | |
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Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758 North American porcupine | |
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Sylvilagus floridanus Allen 1890 eastern cottontail | |
"Mylohyus exortivus" = Mylohyus fossilis
"Mylohyus exortivus" = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary | |
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Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
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Equus complicatus Leidy 1858 horse | |
Tapirus sp., "Tapirus haysii" = Tapirus (Helicotapirus) haysii
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762 tapir | |
"Lutra canadensis" = Lontra canadensis
"Lutra canadensis" = Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776 North American river otter | |
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Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
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Mephitis mephitis Schreber 1776 striped skunk | |
"Euarctos americanus" = Ursus americanus
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