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New Trout Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 38.6028,-79.3689 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | stated in text |
Given Location | West Virginia, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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New Trout Cave | Grady F. (1984) | "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" | not reported | 0.126 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
Recorded Fossils
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!