Where: Navassa, Haiti (18.4° N, 75.0° W: paleocoordinates 18.4° N, 75.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. Patton, J.C. Dickinson, N. Payne in 1965
• University of Florida
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•The tortoise material presently available was all obtained from blocks of a brecciated deposit partially encircling the top of a sink hole near the Navassa lighthouse
Primary reference: W. Auffenberg. 1967. Notes on West Indian Tortoises. Herpetologica 23(1):34-44 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190731: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 14.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
Pseudemys sp. Gray 1856 cooter | |
Geochelone sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle |