Frankstown Cave (Pleistocene of the United States)
Where: Blair County, Pennsylvania (40.4° N, 78.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 78.2° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported and breccia
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: C. W. Gilmore. 1938. Fossil snakes of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper (9)1-96 [J. Head/J. Head]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 125958: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 27.03.2012, edited by Terri Cleary
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Serpentes indet. Linnaeus 1758 snake Some larger remains were classified as ? Coluber constrictor by collector Peterson, and Gilmore agrees it is distinct from Thamnophis.
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Thamnophis sp. Fitzinger 1843 garter snake CM 11322, right maxilla; CM 11319, fragments of jaws; CM 11321, about 34 vertebrae
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