Wikiplacemarks.com  
 



Find us on Google+

Riverbluff Cave

View on map:37.106298°N 93.329270°W

Description

The Riverbluff Cave is a paleontological site discovered in the United States, near Springfield, Missouri. The entrance is filled with stalactites, stalagmites and columns. The cave is about 830,000 years old (making it the oldest known fossil cave site in the US) and 610 m long, featuring the Pleistocene fossils, notably of the short-faced bear (Artcodus simus) the largest bear species on the Earth (about 6 feet tall at the shoulder and weighing 1,400 pounds).[2]

References

All text is available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Average user rating: Not rated

Click on a star to rate
 

Do you have a form that you would like to turn into an application?

Please share your ideas with us.

Contact us...