Where: Pendleton County, West Virginia (38.6° N, 79.4° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 79.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The upper 90 cm... contain a fairly typical late Pleistocene fauna" but there is at least some material at multiple points "from 120-21 cm"; there is a date of "29,400 +/- 1,700 B.P." apparently around the 60 cm level and "it seems likely that the lower levels... are early to middle Rancholabrean in age"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Grady in 1979-1982; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

• "The deposit... was collected in 30 cm intervals to a depth of 220 cm and wet-screened through 5 mm and 1.5 mm mesh"

Primary reference: F. Grady. 1984. A Pleistocene occurrence of Geomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) in West Virginia. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:161-163 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 93332: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010, edited by Margaret Shalap and Mark Uhen

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