Cass Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum Kerr 1792 American mastodon