Where: Jamaica (18.5° N, 77.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.5° N, 77.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by H.E. Anthony in 1920; reposited in the AMNH
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and D. W. Steadman. 1977. A new genus of flightless ibis (Threskiornithidae) and other fossil birds from cave deposits in Jamaica. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 90:447-457 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.06.2018, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
"Speotyto cf. cunicularia" = Athene cunicularia
"Speotyto cf. cunicularia" = Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
Siphonorhis americana Linnaeus 1758 Jamaican pauraque | |
Reptilia | |
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