Velvet Room (Pleistocene of the United States)
Also known as CM loc. 1927; Will's Hole
Where: Park County, Colorado (39.3° N, 105.7° W: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 105.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Irvingtonian (1.8 - 0.3 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: A. D. Barnosky and D. L. Rasmussen. 1988. Middle Pleistocene arvicoline rodents and environmental change at 2900-meters elevation, Porcupine Cave, South Park, Colorado. Annals of Carnegie Museum 57(12):267-292 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]more details
PaleoDB collection 20559: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 19.05.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• does not include Mark's Sink sublocality (see)
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Camelops sp. Leidy 1854 camel | |
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Canis latrans Say 1823 coyote | |
Mustela sp.2, Mustela nigripes2, Mustela erminea2, "Mustela vison" = Neogale vison2, "Mustela frenata" = Neogale frenata2, Taxidea taxus2, "Martes diluviana" = Pekania diluviana2, Martes sp.2
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Erethizon sp. Cuvier 1822 North American porcupine | |
Lemmiscus curtatus1, Neotoma sp., Neotoma cinerea, Microtus sp.3, "Terricola meadensis" = Microtus meadensis1
Neotoma cinerea Ord 1815 bushy-tailed woodrat | |
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Thomomys sp. Wied-Neuwied 1839 pocket gopher | |
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus4, Marmota cf. flaviventris4, Cynomys sp., "Neotamias cf. minimus" = Eutamias minimus4, "Spermophilus cf. elegans" = Urocitellus elegans5, Sciurus sp.
Cynomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 prairie dog
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758 squirrel | |
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Ochotona cf. princeps Richardson 1828 American pika | |
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