The First American Bank Site General Cave Area (including dump): Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Tennessee
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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"Unidentified fish scales" | ||||||||||
Amphibia
- Temnospondyli
- Bufonidae
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Bufo sp.
Laurenti 1768
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Reptilia
- Serpentes
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Serpentes indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Reptilia
- Colubridae
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Pituophis sp.
Holbrook 1842
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Coluber sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Thamnophis cf. sirtalis
Linnaeus
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Agkistrodon sp.
(Huxley 1865)
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nomen dubium belonging to Crocopoda | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Testudines
- Kinosternoidea
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Kinosternon sp.
von Spix 1824
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Mammutidae
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Mammut americanum
(Kerr 1792)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
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Procyon lotor
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
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Mephitis mephitis
(Schreber 1776)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Smilodon floridanus
(Leidy 1889)
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synonym of Smilodon fatalis | ||||||||||
Lynx rufus
(Schreber 1777)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Mylohyus nasutus
(Leidy 1868)
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus cf. virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Mammalia
- Talpidae
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Scalopus aquaticus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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"S. a. cf. machrinus" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
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Blarina brevicauda
(Say 1823)
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus cf. floridanus
(Allen 1890)
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Sylvilagus cf. aquaticus
(Bachman 1837)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
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Pitymys sp.
McMurtrie 1831
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synonym of Microtus | ||||||||||
"Pitymys McMurtrie (or Pedomys Baird)" | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
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Geomys cf. bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | Tennessee | County: | Davidson |
Coordinates: | 36.2° North, 86.8° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 36.2° North, 86.8° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 133 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Pleistocene and Holocene material; mixed provenience |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | "siliciclastic" |
Environment: | fissure fill |
Geology comments: Fissure-fill sediments exposed (and partially disturbed) during excavation of First American Bank site |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Disassociated minor elements: | all |
Temporal resolution: | time-averaged |
Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 63429 | ||
Authorizer: | C. Bell | Enterer: | C. Bell |
Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2006-08-14 16:00:20 | Last modified: | 2008-03-20 19:14:29 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-14 16:00:20 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18245. | J. E. Guilday. 1977. Sabertooth cat, Smilodon floridanus (Leidy), and associated fauna from a Tennessee Cave (40 Dv 40), the First American Bank site. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science 52(3):84-94 [J. Head/J. Head] |