Where: San Salvador, Bahamas (24.1° N, 74.5° W: paleocoordinates 24.1° N, 74.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• The bones recovered included those of domestic mammals, indicating deposition within the past few hundred years, and the other bones recovered are probably not of much, if any, greater age.
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: bone collector
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (in situ), sieve,
Primary reference: S. L. Olson, G. K. Pregill, and W. B. Hilgartner. 1990. Studies on Fossil and Extant Vertebrates from San Salvador (Watling's) Island, Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 508:1-24 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190745: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 16.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Natalus tumidifrons funnel-eared bat | |
Aves | |
Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
Margarops fuscatus Vieillot 1808 pearly-eyed thrasher | |
Reptilia | |
Leiocephalus loxogrammus curly-tailed lizard | |
Anolis distichus anole | |
Amphibia | |
Osteopilus septentrionalis Dumétil and Bibron 1841 tree frog |