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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Parulidae indet. Wetmore et al. 1947 perching bird
"Dendroica sp." = Setophaga Swainson 1827 perching bird
"Seiurus aurocapillus" = Seiurus aurocapilla Linnaeus 1766 ovenbird | |
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Phaenicophilus palmarum Linnaeus 1766 black-crowned palm-tanager | |
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Calyptophilus frugivorus Cory 1883 eastern chat-tanager | |
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Contopus sp. Cabanis 1855 pewee
Tyrannus dominicensis Gmelin 1788 gray kingbird | |
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Tiaris bicolor Linnaeus 1766 black-faced grassquit
Loxigilla violacea Linnaeus 1758 greater Antillean bullfinch | |
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Petrochelidon fulva Vieillot 1808 cave swallow | |
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Dulus dominicus Linnaeus 1766 palmchat | |
"Brachyspiza capensis" = Zonotrichia capensis
"Brachyspiza capensis" = Zonotrichia capensis Statius Muller 1776 rufous-collared sparrow | |
"Mimocichla plumbea" = Turdus plumbeus
"Mimocichla plumbea" = Turdus plumbeus Linnaeus 1758 red-legged thrush | |
"Lawrencia nana" = Vireo nanus, Vireo altiloquus
"Lawrencia nana" = Vireo nanus Lawrence 1875 flat-billed vireo
Vireo altiloquus Vieillot 1808 black-whiskered vireo | |
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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 | |
"Temnotrogon roseigaster" = Priotelus roseigaster
"Temnotrogon roseigaster" = Priotelus roseigaster Vieillot 1817 Hispaniolan trogon | |
Zenaida asiatica, "Columbigallina passerina" = Columbina passerina, Geotrygon sp., "Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa, "Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala
Zenaida asiatica Linnaeus 1758 white-winged dove
"Columbigallina passerina" = Columbina passerina Linnaeus 1758 common ground-dove
Geotrygon sp. Gosse 1847 dove
"Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa Bonnaterre 1792 scaly-naped pigeon
"Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala Linnaeus 1758 white-crowned pigeon | |
"Saurothera longirostris" = Coccyzus longirostris, "Hyetornis rufigularis" = Coccyzus rufigularis
"Saurothera longirostris" = Coccyzus longirostris Hermann 1783 Hispaniolan lizard-cuckoo
"Hyetornis rufigularis" = Coccyzus rufigularis Hartlaub 1852 bay-breasted cuckoo | |
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Asio sp. Brisson 1760 true owl | |
"Porzana flaviventer" = Hapalocrex flaviventer, Porzana carolina, "Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica
"Porzana flaviventer" = Hapalocrex flaviventer Boddaert 1783 yellow-breasted crake
Porzana carolina Linnaeus 1758 sora
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica Linnaeus 1766 purple gallinule | |
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Anthracothorax dominicus Linnaeus 1766 Antillean mango | |
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Siphonorhis brewsteri Chapman 1917 least pauraque | |