Barbuda Cave 1 (Pleistocene to of Antigua and Barbuda)

Also known as UF XW001

Where: Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda (17.7° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 61.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave

• most of the vertebrate fossils came from "fine, soft, highly phosphatic reddish brown to red soil"

Preservation: original phosphate

Collected by W. Auffenberg in 1958 and March 1962; reposited in the FLMNH

Primary reference: W. Auffenberg. 1959. A small fossil herpetofauna from Barbuda, Leeward Islands, with the description of a new species of Hyla. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 21(3):248-254 [J. Bloch/R. Hulbert]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 155349: authorized by Jonathan Bloch, entered by Richard Hulbert on 09.04.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Amphibia
 Salientia - Hylidae
Hyla barbudensis n. sp.
Hyla barbudensis n. sp. Auffenberg 1959 tree frog
holotype UF 2752 (not 2572 as published)
Reptilia
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Thecadactylus rapicauda
Thecadactylus rapicauda Houttuyn 1782 turnip-tailed gecko
 Squamata - Polychrotidae
Anolis leachii
Anolis leachii Duméril and Bibron 1837 Leach's anole
 Squamata - Colubridae
cf. Pseudoboa sp.
cf. Pseudoboa sp. Schneider 1801 colubrid snake