Trout Cave Entrance: Irvingtonian, West Virginia

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Pipistrellus subflavus (Cuvier 1832)
a bat
Plecotus sp. Geoffroy 1818
a bat
Eptesicus fuscus (Beauvois 1796)
a bat
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Lynx rufus (Schreber 1777)
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus americanus Pallas 1780
Mammalia - Soricidae
Blarina brevicauda (Say 1823)
Jones et al. 1984
Sorex arcticus Kerr 1792
Mammalia - Talpidae
Parascalops breweri (Bachman 1842)
Condylura cristata (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Sciuridae
Tamiasciurus hudsonicus (Erxleben 1777)
Marmota monax (Linnaeus 1758)
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus (Mitchell 1821)
Sciurus sp. Linnaeus 1758
Glaucomys volans (Linnaeus 1758)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Castoridae
Castor canadensis Kuhl 1820
Mammalia - Rodentia - Geomyidae
Thomomys potomacensis (Gidley and Gazin 1933)
Mammalia - Rodentia - Cricetidae
Neofiber leonardi Hibbard 1943
Atopomys salvelinus n. sp. Zakrzewski 1975
    = Atopomys texensis Patton 1965
Alroy 2002
see Zakrzewski 1975
Phenacomys sp. Merriam 1889
Ondatra annectens (Brown 1908)
Clethrionomys gapperi (Vigors 1830)
Microtus chrotorrhinus (Miller 1894)
Neotoma floridana (Ord 1818)
Peromyscus cumberlandensis Guilday and Handley 1967
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858
Mammalia - Rodentia - Erethizontidae
Coendou cumberlandicus White 1970
    = Erethizon dorsatum Linnaeus 1758
Alroy 2002
see Frazier 1981
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Ochotonidae
Ochotona sp. Link 1795
described by Guilday 1979
see common names

Geography
Country:United States State/province:West Virginia County:Pendleton
Coordinates: 38.7° North, 79.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.7° North, 79.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period:Quaternary Epoch:Pleistocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 6
Key time interval:Irvingtonian
Age range of interval:1.80000 - 0.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Taxonomic list comments:nearby New Trout Cave is probably entirely Wisconsinan: Holman and Grady 1987
this list is INCOMPLETE, definitely missing at 14 least species
Metadata
Database number:20554
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:J. Alroy
Research group:vertebrate
Created:1995-03-26 00:00:00 Last modified:2002-06-03 03:27:44
Access level:the public Released:1995-03-26 00:00:00
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

6221. B. Kurten and E. Anderson. 1980. Pleistocene mammals of North America 1-442 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

6294 J. Alroy. 2002. Synonymies and reidentifications of North American fossil mammals. [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Kouvari]
2046 C. A. Jones, J. R. Choate, and H. H. Genoways. 1984. Phylogeny and Paleobiogeography of Short-tailed Shrews (Genus Blarina). In H. H. Genoways and M. R. Dawson (eds.), Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 8:56-148 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/M. Uhen]