Cheetah Room: Irvingtonian, West Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Tayassuidae indet.
Palmer 1897
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Van Valkenburgh et al. 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon sp.
Lund 1841
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Van Valkenburgh et al. 1990 | |||||||||
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Miracinonyx inexpectatus
(Cope 1895)
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Van Valkenburgh et al. 1990 | |||||||||
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Panthera onca
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Van Valkenburgh et al. 1990 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Mictomys borealis
(Richardson 1828)
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Fejfar and Repenning 1998 | |||||||||
| recombined as Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis | ||||||||||
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Ondatra annectens
(Brown 1908)
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Pitymys hibbardi
Holman 1959
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= Pitymys sp.
McMurtrie 1831
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Martin 1995 | |||||||||
| synonym of Microtus | ||||||||||
| exact placement of material unclear, but definitely an indeterminate species close to P. pinetorum | ||||||||||
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Lasiopodomys deceitensis
(Guthrie and Matthews 1971)
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| includes "Microtus paroperarius" according to Repenning 1992 | ||||||||||
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Allophaiomys pliocaenicus
Kormos 1932
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= Allophaiomys cf. pliocaenicus
Kormos 1932
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Repenning 1992 | |||||||||
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Phenacomys brachyodus
Repenning and Grady 1988
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Mimomys virginianus
Repenning and Grady 1988
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Atopomys salvelinus
Zakrzewski 1975
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= Atopomys texensis
Patton 1965
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Alroy 2002 | |||||||||
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Synaptomys cooperi
Baird 1858
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Repenning 1992 | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
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Ochotona sp.
Link 1795
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Mead and Grady 1996 | |||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | West Virginia | County: | Pendleton |
| Coordinates: | 38.7° North, 79.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 38.7° North, 79.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Local age/stage: | Irvingtonian |
| Key time interval: | Irvingtonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: said to be Irvingtonian |
Lithology and environment
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some genera |
| Taxonomic list comments:within Hamilton Cave Hamilton Cave, exact locality not stated: Napaeozapus sp. Martin 1994 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 20286 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-03 03:27:44 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1993-02-18 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 2875. | C. A. Repenning and F. Grady. 1988. The microtine rodents of the Cheetah Room fauna, Hamilton Cave, West Virginia, and the spontaneous origin of Synaptomys. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 1853(4):1-32 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] |
Secondary references:
| 6294 | J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari] | |
| 1478 | O. Fejfar and C. A. Repenning. 1998. The ancestors of the lemmings (Lemmini, Arvicolinae, Cricetidae, Rodentia) in the early Pliocene of Wölfersheim near Frankfurt am Main; Germany. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 77(1/2):161-193 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/L. van den Hoek Ostende] | |
| 2445 | R. A. Martin. 1995. A new middle Pleistocene species of Microtus (Pedomys) from the southern United States, with comments on the taxonomy and early evolution of Pedomys and Pitymys in North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15(1):171-186 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2548 | J. I. Mead and F. Grady. 1996. Ochotona (Lagomorpha) from late Quaternary cave deposits in eastern North America. Quaternary Research 45(1):93-101 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy] | |
| 2873 | C. A. Repenning. 1992. Allophaiomys and the age of the Olyor Suite, Krestovka sections, Yakutia. United States Geological Survey Bulletin 2037(4):1-95 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Ju] | |
| 3491 | B. Van Valkenburgh, F. Grady, and B. Kurten. 1990. The Plio-Pleistocene Cheetah-Like Cat Miracinonyx inexpectatus of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10(4):434-454 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Marcot] |