Shearwater Cave 2 (Holocene of Cayman Islands)
Where: Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands (19.7° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.7° N, 79.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1994. Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands. In M.A. Brunt, J.E. Davies (eds.), The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography 465-508 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 210540: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2020
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Aves | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
Reptilia | |
Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron 1837 Brown anole | |
Mammalia | |
Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat | |
Capromys sp. Desmarest 1822 hutia | |
Nesophontes sp. Anthony 1916 placental |