Mermaid’s Lair: Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene, Bahamas
collected by Cristina Zenato & Arkadiusz Pers 2011
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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Crocodylus rhombifer
Cuvier 1807
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Geography
| Country: | Bahamas | State/province: | Grand Bahama |
| Coordinates: | 26.6° North, 78.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 26.6° North, 78.4° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 0.12900 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | sinkhole |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | Cristina Zenato & Arkadiusz Pers | Collection dates: | 2011 |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Lucayan Caverns | ||
| Database number: | 198653 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | P. Mannion | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2019-01-04 10:43:56 | Last modified: | 2019-01-04 10:43:56 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2019-01-04 10:43:56 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 67679. | G. S. Morgan and N. A. Albury. 2013. The Cuban crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer) from late Quaternary fossil deposits in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 52(3):161-236 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion] |