Grotte San Francisco, St. Michel de L’Atalaye (Pleistocene to of Haiti)

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
 Strigiformes - Tytonidae
Tyto ostologa n. sp. Wetmore 1922 Hispaniolan giant barn owl
 Columbiformes - Columbidae
"Chamaepelia passerina" = Columbina passerina
"Chamaepelia passerina" = Columbina passerina Linnaeus 1758 common ground-dove