The Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Cumberland cave, Maryland
By: by James W. Gidley and C. Lewis Gazin.
Contributors: Gazin, Charles Lewis, 1904- joint author.
Series: Smithsonian institution. United States National museum. Bulletin 171
Publisher: U.S. Govt. print. off.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Vertebrates, Fossil.; Paleontology -- Pleistocene.; Paleontology -- Maryland -- Allegany County.; Cave fauna.; Cumberland cave (Md.)
Description: Limestone caverns have played a major role in preserving a record of the Pleistocene life in the eastern region of North America.. Cumberland Cave was first found by workmen in excavating for a railroad cut near Cumberland, Md. Considerable fossil material was destroyed by steam shovel and dynamite before the significance of the find was known, but the abundant material subsequently obtained includes a remarkable variety of mammalian forms, many of which are represented by unsually well preserved remains.
Notes: "Literature cited": p. 91-93.