Hanging Garden Pit, Long Island (Pleistocene of Bahamas)

Where: Bahamas (23.2° N, 75.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• Inferred to be Late Pleistocene by Steadman et al. (2020) because all bones assessed for 14C dating all lacked collagen.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University of Florida

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman and O. M. Takano. 2016. A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies. Zootaxa 4109:345-358 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209850: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2020

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Taxonomic list

Aves
 Charadriiformes - Scolopacidae
Gallinago kakuki Steadman and Takano 2016 snipe