Where: Haiti (19.4° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 72.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Excavated to a depth of less than a meter
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by J.S. Brown, W.S. Burbank in 1921; reposited in the USNM
Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1922. Remains of birds from caves in the republic of Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 74(4):1-4 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Tyto ostologa n. sp.
Tyto ostologa n. sp. Wetmore 1922 Hispaniolan giant barn owl | |
"Chamaepelia passerina" = Columbina passerina
"Chamaepelia passerina" = Columbina passerina Linnaeus 1758 common ground-dove |