New Trout Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, West Virginia
collected by F. Grady 1979-1982
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Megalonychidae
|
||||||||||
Megalonyx sp.
Harlan 1825
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
Megalonyx cf. jeffersonii
(Desmarest 1822)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Vespertilionidae
|
||||||||||
Pipistrellus subflavus
(Cuvier 1832)
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Plecotus sp.
Geoffroy 1818
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Eptesicus fuscus
(Beauvois 1796)
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Lasiurus borealis
(Muller 1776)
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Myotis sp.
Kaup 1829
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Myotis leibii
(Audubon and Bachman 1842)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Myotis ? grisescens
Howell 1909
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Chiroptera
- Phyllostomidae
|
||||||||||
Desmodus sp.
Wied-Neuwied 1826
|
Grady 1991 | |||||||||
Desmodus cf. stocki
Jones 1958
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Desmodus stocki
Jones 1958
|
Grady et al. 2002 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
|
||||||||||
Mustela vison
(Schreber 1777)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
recombined as Neogale vison | ||||||||||
Mustela armines
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mustela cf. fenata
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mustela nivalis
Linnaeus 1766
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Taxidea taxus
(Schreber 1778)
|
||||||||||
Martes pennanti
(Erxleben 1777)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
recombined as Pekania pennanti | ||||||||||
Martes americana
(Kerr 1792)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mephitidae
|
||||||||||
Brachyprotoma obtusata
(Cope 1899)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
[entered as Brachyprotoma obtusate] | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Procyonidae
|
||||||||||
Procyon lotor
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
|
||||||||||
Ursus americanus
Pallas 1780
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
|
||||||||||
Canis dirus
Leidy 1858
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
recombined as Aenocyon dirus | ||||||||||
Canis cf. latrans
Say 1823
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
Vulpes sp.
Frisch 1775
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
|
||||||||||
Equus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Tayassuidae
|
||||||||||
Platygonus compressus
Leconte 1848
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
[entered as Platygonus compresus] | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Cervidae
|
||||||||||
Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Rangifer tarandus
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
|
||||||||||
Bootherium bombifrons
(Harlan 1825)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Soricidae
|
||||||||||
Blarina brevicauda
(Say 1823)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sorex hoyi
Baird 1858
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sorex palustris
Richardson 1828
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sorex arcticus
Kerr 1792
|
||||||||||
Sorex dispar
Batchelder 1896
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sorex cinereus
Kerr 1792
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sorex fumeus
Miller 1895
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Talpidae
|
||||||||||
Parascalops breweri
(Bachman 1842)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Condylura cristata
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Sciuridae
|
||||||||||
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus
(Erxleben 1777)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Marmota monax
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Eutamias cf. minimus
(Bachman 1839)
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus
(Mitchell 1821)
|
||||||||||
Tamias striatus
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Sciurus corolinensis
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Glaucomys cf. volans
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Glaucomys sabrinus
(Shaw 1801)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Castoridae
|
||||||||||
Castor canadensis
Kuhl 1820
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Geomyidae
|
||||||||||
Geomys sp.
Rafinesque 1817
|
||||||||||
Geomys cf. bursarius
(Shaw 1800)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
|
||||||||||
Neofiber cf. alleni
True 1884
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Phenacomys intermedius
Merriam 1889
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Ondatra ziebethicus
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Clethrionomys gaperi
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
synonym of Myodes | ||||||||||
Microtus pennsylvanicus
(Ord 1815)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Microtus xanthognathus
(Leach 1815)
|
||||||||||
Microtus pinetorum
(Le Conte 1830)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Microtus cf. ochrogaster
(Wagner 1842)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Microtus chrotorrhinus
(Miller 1894)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Dicrostonyx hudsonius
(Pallas 1778)
|
||||||||||
Neotoma magister
Baird 1858
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
synonym of Neotoma floridana | ||||||||||
Peromyscus sp.
Gloger 1841
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Synaptomys cooperi
Baird 1858
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Synaptomys borealis
(Richardson 1828)
|
Garton and Grady 1980 | |||||||||
recombined as Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Zapodidae
|
||||||||||
Zapus hudsonius
(Zimmermann 1780)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Napaeozapus insignis
(Miller 1891)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Erethizontidae
|
||||||||||
Erethizon dorsatum
(Linnaeus 1758)
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Ochotonidae
|
||||||||||
Ochotona sp.
Link 1795
|
||||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
|
||||||||||
Lepus americanus
Erxleben 1777
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
cf. Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
|
Grady and Garton 2000 | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United States | State/province: | West Virginia | County: | Pendleton |
Coordinates: | 38.6° North, 79.4° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 38.6° North, 79.4° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
Altitude: | 549 meters | ||||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago | ||
Age estimate: | 29400 ± 1700 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "The upper 90 cm... contain a fairly typical late Pleistocene fauna" but there is at least some material at multiple points "from 120-21 cm"; there is a date of "29,400 +/- 1,700 B.P." apparently around the 60 cm level and "it seems likely that the lower levels... are early to middle Rancholabrean in age" |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Lithology description: "bone-rich matrix" | |
Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | some genera | ||
Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection | ||
Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | ||
Museum repositories: | USNM | ||
Collectors: | F. Grady | Collection dates: | 1979-1982 |
Collection method comments: "The deposit... was collected in 30 cm intervals to a depth of 220 cm and wet-screened through 5 mm and 1.5 mm mesh" | |||
Taxonomic list comments:"fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and at least 60 species of mammals" are present but only key ones are mentioned |
Metadata
Database number: | 93332 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen | Enterer: | J. Alroy, M. Uhen, M. Shalap |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2010-01-14 14:22:40 | Last modified: | 2011-01-24 16:01:58 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2010-01-14 14:22:40 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
31578. | F. Grady. 1984. A Pleistocene occurrence of Geomys (Rodentia: Geomyidae) in West Virginia. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:161-163 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
40141 | E. R. Garton and F. V. Grady. 1980. The late Pleistocene fauna of New Trout Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia. Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 52(1):14 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
39873 | F. Grady. 1991. Fossil Chiroptera From Two West Virginia Caves. The National Speleological Society Bulletin 53(2):122 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
41246 | F. Grady, J. Arroyo-Cabrales, and E. R. Garton. 2002. The northernmost occurrence of the Pleistocene vampire bat Desmodus stocki Jones (Chiroptera, Phyllostomatidae, Desmodontinae) in eastern North America. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 93:73-75 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap] | |
40654 | F. Grady and E. R. Garton. 2000. Paleontology and historic field trip of the John Guilday Cave Preserve (Trout Rock). Bulletin - West Virginia Speleological Survey 14:241-244 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Shalap] | |
40912 | F. Grady and D. A. Hubbard. 2001. The extinct Muskox Bootherium bombifrons from caves in West Virginia and Virginia. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 63(3):117 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen] |