Where: Monroe County, West Virginia (37.6° N, 80.5° W: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 80.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• "The 14C dates are 11,350 ± 360 years BP for the tooth and 21,830 ± 660 years BP for the humerus fragment"

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

• "During several expeditions to Scott Hollow in Monroe County, WV, cavers have recovered seven teeth of the extinct, Pleistocene age, mastodon Mammut americanum as well as other postcranial bones. At least three individuals are represented."

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•"One complete tooth minus roots and one fragment of a humerus were submitted for radiocarbon dating. Both samples were from different parts and levels of a large cave system and are thus not from the same individual."

Reposited in the UNSM

• "Molds and casts have been made of the teeth and deposited in the U.S. Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) and Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The original teeth are on loan from the owner and on exhibit at the West Virginia Geological Survey Museum."

Primary reference: F. Grady, E. R. Garton, T. Byland and R. L. Pyle. 2005. New records of Mammut americanum (Mastodon) from Monroe County, West Virginia. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 67(3):195 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 126593: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 08.04.2012

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