Hanover Quarry No. 1 Fissure: Irvingtonian, Pennsylvania

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
a bat
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Smilodon cf. gracilis Cope 1880
Felis inexpectatus (Cope 1895)
    = Miracinonyx cf. inexpectatus Cope 1895
Alroy 2002
Panthera cf. onca (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustela sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mephitidae
Mephitis mephitis (Schreber 1776)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Urocyon cinereoargenteus (Schreber 1775)
Mammalia - Tayassuidae
Mylohyus nasutus (Leidy 1868)
    = Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860
Alroy 2002
Platygonus sp. Leconte 1848
Mammalia - Cervidae
Odocoileus virginianus (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus cf. complicatus Leidy 1858
Mammalia - Soricidae
Blarina sp. Gray 1838
    = Blarina carolinensis Bachman 1837
Jones et al. 1984
Sorex sp. Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Parascalops breweri (Bachman 1842)
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Sylvilagus sp. Gray 1867
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys potomacensis (Gidley and Gazin 1933)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Tamias cf. striatus (Linnaeus 1758)
Marmota cf. monax (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Erethizon dorsatum (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Zapodidae
Napaeozapus insignis (Miller 1891)
Zapus hudsonius (Zimmermann 1780)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841
Ondatra cf. hiatidens (Cope 1871)
    = Ondatra cf. idahoensis Wilson 1933
Alroy 2002
Pitymys cf. cumberlandensis van der Meulen 1978
confirmed by Repenning 1992
Microtus guildayi van der Meulen 1978
    = Allophaiomys cf. guildayi van der Meulen 1978
Alroy 2002
original and current combination Microtus guildayi
confirmed by both Pfaff 1990 and Repenning 1992
Microtus cf. paroperarius Hibbard 1944
    = ? Lasiopodomys sp. Lataste 1887
Repenning 1992
insofar as "no Microtus morphotypes were found" and there are only three microtines
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858
Reptilia - Phasianidae
Meleagris gallopavo Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Odontophoridae
Colinus virginianus (Linnaeus 1758)
Reptilia - Crotalidae
Crotalus horridus Linnaeus 1758
Reptilia - Colubridae
Opheodrys vernalis
Coluber constrictor Linnaeus 1758
Lampropeltis triangulum Lacépède 1788
Elaphe sp. Wagler 1833
Elaphe vulpina (Baird and Girard 1853)
Heterodon platyrhinos (Latreille 1801)
Nerodia sipedon (Linnaeus 1758)
Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843
Reptilia - Testudines - Trionychidae
Trionyx ? muticus LeSueur 1827
    = Apalone ? mutica LeSueur 1827
Alroy 2007
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo americanus Holbrook 1836
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Ranidae
Rana cf. pipiens Schreber 1782
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:Pennsylvania County:Adams
Coordinates: 39.8° North, 77.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.8° North, 77.0° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.40000 - 0.21000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:"Tapirus cf. haysii" of Ray and Sanders 1984 is from "Hanover Quarry, York Co., Pennsylvania" associated (only?) with "mastodon" and "horse" and was recovered in 1977, whereas this fauna was "discovered in the fall of 1981": Guilday et al. 1984
Metadata
Database number:20354
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:
1727. J. E. Guilday. 1984. In W. C. Mahaney (ed.), Correlation of Quaternary Chronologies [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
19636 J. Alroy. 2007. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil vertebrates and so forth. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]
2046 C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]
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]