Bowden: Late/Upper Pleistocene, West Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neotoma floridana (Ord 1818)
Synaptomys borealis (Richardson 1828)
recombined as Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Tapiridae
Tapirus sp. Brisson 1762
Mammalia - Cervidae
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758
Mammalia - Talpidae
Condylura cristata (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Soricidae
Blarina brevicuda
Sorex cinerus
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Mammutidae
Mammut americanum (Kerr 1792)
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Bufonidae
Bufo sp. Laurenti 1768
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:West Virginia County:Randolph
Coordinates: 38.9° North, 79.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.9° North, 79.7° West
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
Stage:Late/Upper Pleistocene 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pleistocene
Age range of interval:0.12900 - 0.01170 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:cave
Geology comments: The caves developed in limestone of the Greenbrier series.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:124950
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Shalap
Modifier:M. Uhen
Created:2012-03-01 06:18:56 Last modified:2012-03-27 14:07:07
Access level:the public Released:2012-03-01 06:18:56
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40496. E. R. Garton. 1977. Late Pleistocene and Recent mammal remains from two caves at Bowden, West Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 49:110-116 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap]