Garden Cave (EL-229), crabby pocket, Eleuthera (Holocene of Bahamas)

Where: Bahamas (25.4° N, 76.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.4° N, 76.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, N. A. Albury, J. I. Mead, J. A. Soto-Centeno, and J. Franklin. 2018. Holocene vertebrates from a dry cave on Eleuthera Island, Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The Holocene 28:806-813 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 194597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.06.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Psittaciformes - Psittacidae
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus Linnaeus 1758 Cuban parrot
 Passeriformes -
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Larus atricilla Linnaeus 1758 laughing gull
Reptilia
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
 Squamata - Boidae
 Squamata - Dipsadidae
Cubophis vudii Cope 1862 snake
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Cyclura sp. Harlan 1824 rock iguana
Leiocephalus sp. Gray 1827 curly-tailed lizard
 Squamata - Polychrotidae
Anolis "sp. 1" Daudin 1802 anole
Anolis "sp. 2" Daudin 1802 anole
 Squamata - Teiidae
Ameiva sp. Meyer 1795 whiptail lizard
Mammalia
 Placentalia -
Chiroptera indet. Blumenbach 1779 bat
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
 Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat
 Rodentia - Capromyidae
Amphibia
 Salientia - Hylidae
Osteopilus septentrionalis Dumétil and Bibron 1841 tree frog