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Cass Cave, Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA
Lat/Long (Decimal) | 38.3975,-79.9136 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Given Location | West Virginia, United States |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Pocahontas County, West Virginia, USA |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Cass Cave | Garton E. R., Grady F. (1992) | "Mastodons and Mammoths became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene thus the discovery is assigned a minimum age of 10,000 years" | not reported | 2.588 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Mammut americanum species | Animalia : Chordata : Mammalia : Proboscidea : Mammutidae : Mammut : Mammut americanum | 2.588 - 0.0117 Ma Pleistocene |
References
Garton E. R., Grady F. (1992) Cass Cave mastodon Mammut americanum sets range and elevation records for West Virginia, Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science 64 1, 43 |
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!