Where: Dominican Republic (19.1° N, 71.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° N, 71.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• A light brown layer, 3-4 feet thick, containing remains of lizards, birds, bats, sloth, Isolobodon, Brotomys, Plagiodontia, and Nesophontes, but without evidence of human occupancy or domestic animals. It is thought to be of late Pleistocene age.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Marcano, Ray, Rand in 1958; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: L. Bernstein. 1965. Fossil birds from the Dominican Republic. Quarterly Journal of the Florida Academy of Sciences 28:271-284 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 194485: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Anthracothorax dominicus Linnaeus 1766 Antillean mango | |
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Siphonorhis brewsteri Chapman 1917 least pauraque | |
Zenaida asiatica, "Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa, "Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala, "Columbigallina passerina" = Columbina passerina, Geotrygon sp.
Zenaida asiatica Linnaeus 1758 white-winged dove
"Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa Bonnaterre 1792 scaly-naped pigeon
"Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala Linnaeus 1758 white-crowned pigeon
"Columbigallina passerina" = Columbina passerina Linnaeus 1758 common ground-dove
Geotrygon sp. Gosse 1847 dove | |
"Hyetornis rufigularis" = Coccyzus rufigularis, "Saurothera longirostris" = Coccyzus longirostris
"Hyetornis rufigularis" = Coccyzus rufigularis Hartlaub 1852 bay-breasted cuckoo
"Saurothera longirostris" = Coccyzus longirostris Hermann 1783 Hispaniolan lizard-cuckoo | |
"Temnotrogon roseigaster" = Priotelus roseigaster
"Temnotrogon roseigaster" = Priotelus roseigaster Vieillot 1817 Hispaniolan trogon | |
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Picidae indet. Vigors 1825 woodpecker
Melanerpes striatus Statius Muller 1776 Hispaniolan woodpecker
Nesoctites micromegas Sundevall 1866 Antillean piculet | |
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Todus angustirostris Lafresnaye 1851 narrow-billed tody
Todus subulatus Gray 1847 broad-billed tody | |
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Asio sp. Brisson 1760 true owl | |
Porzana carolina, "Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica, "Porzana flaviventer" = Hapalocrex flaviventer
Porzana carolina Linnaeus 1758 sora
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica Linnaeus 1766 purple gallinule
"Porzana flaviventer" = Hapalocrex flaviventer Boddaert 1783 yellow-breasted crake | |
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Calyptophilus frugivorus Cory 1883 eastern chat-tanager | |
"Mimocichla plumbea" = Turdus plumbeus
"Mimocichla plumbea" = Turdus plumbeus Linnaeus 1758 red-legged thrush | |
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Dulus dominicus Linnaeus 1766 palmchat | |
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Phaenicophilus palmarum Linnaeus 1766 black-crowned palm-tanager | |
Vireo altiloquus, "Lawrencia nana" = Vireo nanus
Vireo altiloquus Vieillot 1808 black-whiskered vireo
"Lawrencia nana" = Vireo nanus Lawrence 1875 flat-billed vireo | |
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Tyrannus dominicensis Gmelin 1788 gray kingbird
Contopus sp. Cabanis 1855 pewee | |
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Petrochelidon fulva Vieillot 1808 cave swallow | |
"Brachyspiza capensis" = Zonotrichia capensis
"Brachyspiza capensis" = Zonotrichia capensis Statius Muller 1776 rufous-collared sparrow | |
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Loxigilla violacea Linnaeus 1758 greater Antillean bullfinch
Tiaris bicolor Linnaeus 1766 black-faced grassquit | |
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Parulidae indet. Wetmore et al. 1947 perching bird
"Dendroica sp." = Setophaga Swainson 1827 perching bird
"Seiurus aurocapillus" = Seiurus aurocapilla Linnaeus 1766 ovenbird | |