Where: Taney County, Missouri (36.7° N, 93.2° W: paleocoordinates 36.7° N, 93.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "The cave lies in rocks of Ordovician age (Cotter Formation)... the age of the fossils is estimated as 16,000 years before present" based on who knows what
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected by Clark H. Hood
• material in the collection of Central Missouri State University
Primary reference: J. A. Holman. 1974. A late Pleistocene herpetofauna from southwestern Missouri. Journal of Herpetology 8(4):343-346 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 75995: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 08.11.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Amphibia | |
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Rana pipiens Schreber 1782 Northern leopard frog | |
Mammalia | |
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Platygonus compressus Leconte 1848 peccary | |
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus
"Canis dirus" = Aenocyon dirus Leidy 1858 dire wolf | |
Dasypus bellus Simpson 1929 beautiful armadillo | |
Reptilia | |
Crotalus horridus Linnaeus 1758 timber rattlesnake | |
Elaphe vulpina Baird and Girard 1853 fox snake
"Natrix sipedon" = Nerodia sipedon Linnaeus 1758 northern water snake | |
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus Linnaeus 1766 six-lined racerunner | |
Sceloporus undulatus Bosc 1802 eastern fence lizard |