Little Salt River Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

Where: Franklin County, Tennessee (35.0° N, 86.0° W: paleocoordinates 35.0° N, 85.8° 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; lithified, calcareous claystone

• bones were found on "a wet clay floor" and "had sunk partly into the clay before drippings from a crack in the roof started the slow process of sealing up everything under a layer of calcium carbonate. The rock had accumulated to a thickness of 1 to 3 inches..."

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by E. McCrady, H. T. Kirby-Smith, H. Templeton in 1944; reposited in the USNM

Collection methods: quarrying,

• specimen was removed "by using hammers and chisels"

Primary reference: E. McCrady, H. T. Kirby-Smith, and H. Templeton. 1954. New finds of Pleistocene jaguar skeletons from Tennessee caves. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 101:497-511 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93372: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 15.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Mammalia
 Carnivora - Felidae
"Panthera (Jaguarius) augusta" = Panthera onca
"Panthera (Jaguarius) augusta" = Panthera onca Linnaeus 1758 jaguar