Haynes Cave: Pleistocene, West Virginia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
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Megalonyx jeffersonii
(Desmarest 1822)
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Grady et al. 2006 | ||||||
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Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
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Mylohyus fossilis
(Leidy 1860)
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Grady et al. 2006 | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | West Virginia | County: | Monroe |
| Coordinates: | 37.7° North, 80.7° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.7° North, 80.5° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: Unfortunately, Haynes cave was heavily mined for saltpeter, thus making interpretation of the stratigraphy of the sediments difficult |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 108095 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Shalap |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2011-04-22 06:04:28 | Last modified: | 2012-04-10 13:38:03 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-04-22 06:04:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 41114. | T. Jefferson. 1799. A Memoir on the Discovery of Certain Bones of a Quadruped of the Clawed Kind in the Western Parts of Virginia. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 4:246-260 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] |
Secondary references:
| 39902 | E. R. Garton and F. Grady. 1996. In search of the West Virginia cave from which President Thomas Jefferson described the bones of a Pleistocene Age, extinct ground sloth Megalonyx. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 68(1):18 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
| 35895 | F. Grady, C. Baker, and E.R. Garton. 2006. Mississippian and Pleistocene Vertebrates from Haynes Cave, West Virginia. Abstracts from the 2006 National Speleological Society Convention Bellingham, Washington 174 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] |