Where: Pocahontas County, West Virginia (38.4° N, 79.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 79.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Mastodons and Mammoths became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene thus the discovery is assigned a minimum age of 10,000 years"
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. R. Garton and F. Grady. 1992. Cass Cave mastodon Mammut americanum sets range and elevation records for West Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 64(1):43 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124388: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 14.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon |