Where: Rockingham County, Virginia (38.5° N, 78.9° W: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 78.9° W)
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Because of the absence of the extinct microtines that distinguish Irvingtonian sites, the Melrose bone site is suspected to date as early Wisconsinan."
Environment/lithology: cave; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. Hubbard and F. Grady. 2001. Melrose Caverns: A Late Pleistocene Vertebrate Locality in Virginia, U.S.A. 13th International Congress of Speleology 301-304 [M. Uhen/M. Shalap/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 124089: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Margaret Shalap on 06.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Amphibia | |
Caudata indet. Scopoli 1777 salamander | |
Cryptobranchus alleganiensis Daudin 1803 hellbender | |
Hylidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 tree frog | |
Mammalia | |
Odocoileus virginianus Zimmermann 1780 white-tailed deer | |
Mylohyus fossilis Leidy 1860 peccary | |
Felidae indet. Gray 1821 cat | |
? Spilogale putorius Linnaeus 1758 eastern spotted skunk | |
Mustelidae indet., "Lutra canadensis" = Lontra canadensis
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore
"Lutra canadensis" = Lontra canadensis Schreber 1776 North American river otter | |
Procyon lotor Linnaeus 1758 raccoon | |
"Sorex (Microsorex) hoyi" = Microsorex hoyi Baird 1858 American pygmy shrew
Sorex cinereus Kerr 1792 cinereus shrew
Blarina brevicauda Say 1823 northern short-tailed shrew | |
Condylura crystata star-nosed mole
Parascalops breweri Bachman 1842 hairly-tailed vole | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit
Lepus americanus Erxleben 1777 snowshoe hare | |
Glaucomys volans Linnaeus 1758 southern flying squirrel
Spermophilus tridecemlineatus Mitchell 1821 thirteen-lined ground squirrel
Tamias striatus Linnaeus 1758 eastern chipmunk | |
Geomys sp. Rafinesque 1817 pocket gopher | |
Peromyscus sp., Synaptomys cooperi, Clethrionomys gapperi, Ondatra zibethicus, Microtus ochrogaster, Microtus chrotorrhinus, Microtus pinetorum, Microtus ? pinetorum, Microtus pennsylvanicus, Phenacomys intermedius, "Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis, "Neotoma magister" = Neotoma floridana
Peromyscus sp. Gloger 1841 deer mouse
Synaptomys cooperi Baird 1858 southern bog lemming
Clethrionomys gapperi Vigors 1830 southern red-backed vole
Ondatra zibethicus Linnaeus 1766 muskrat
Microtus ochrogaster Wagner 1842 prairie vole
Microtus chrotorrhinus Miller 1894 rock vole
Microtus pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Microtus ? pinetorum Le Conte 1830 woodland vole
Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord 1815 meadow vole
Phenacomys intermedius Merriam 1889 western heather vole
"Synaptomys borealis" = Synaptomys (Mictomys) borealis Richardson 1828 northern bog lemming
"Neotoma magister" = Neotoma floridana Ord 1818 eastern woodrat | |
Napaeozapus insignis Miller 1891 woodland jumping mouse
Zapus hudsonius Zimmermann 1780 meadow jumping mouse | |
Pipistrellus subflavus Cuvier 1832 eastern pipistrelle bat
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat
Corynorhinus sp. Allen 1865 vesper bat | |
Reptilia | |
Colubridae indet. Oppel 1811 colubrid snake | |
Aves | |
Anatidae indet. Vigors 1825 waterfowl | |
Actinopteri | |
Cyprinidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 carp-like fish | |
Catostomidae indet. carp-like fish | |
Ictaluridae indet. Gill 1861 catfish |