Where: Puerto Rico (18.1° N, 66.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.1° N, 66.6° W)

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• The macaw bones came from pit 8, level 30-40 cm below surface (cmbs), from a midden deposit that is located at the base and beginning of the Pomarrosa phase (Maíz López 2002) within the local sequence. The beginning of the Pomarrosa phase at the Hernández Colón site is dated at ca. A.D. 300, based on a charcoal sample measurement (2 sigma–cal. 420-870 A.D.-Beta 23902)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: S. L. Olson and E. J. Maíz López. 2008. New evidence of Ara autochthones from an archeological site in Puerto Rico: a valid species of West Indian macaw of unknown geographical origin (Aves: Psittacidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 44:215-222 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 194487: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 20.06.2018

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