Where: Greenbrier County, West Virginia (37.7° N, 80.4° W: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 80.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Stratigraphic evidence of the relative geologic ages of the bones was lacking... Some may be Recent. At least some, possibly many, are probably late Pleistocene in age"

Environment/lithology: cave; gravel and conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R. H. Handley, R. H. Flack, J. M. Rutherford, I. T. Sanderson, F. S. Workman in 1949 - 1951; reposited in the UMMP

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• "Specimens were picked up on or near the surface... no digging, sifting, or washing was attempted"

Primary reference: C. O. Handley, Jr. 1956. Bones of mammals From West Virginia caves. American Midland Naturalist 56(1):250-256 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 79661: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 17.03.2008

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