Pollard Bay Cave (Holocene of Cayman Islands)
Where: Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands (19.7° N, 79.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: G. S. Morgan. 1994. Late Quaternary fossil vertebrates from the Cayman Islands. In M.A. Brunt, J.E. Davies (eds.), The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography 465-508 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 210541: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 03.06.2020
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Taxonomic list
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Reptilia | |
Leiocephalus carinatus Gray 1827 Northern curlytail lizard | |
Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron 1837 Brown anole | |
Celestus crusculus Garman 1887 Garman's galliwasp | |
Aristelliger praesignis Hallowell 1856 croacking gecko | |
Aves | |
Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
Eudocimus cf. albus Linnaeus 1758 White ibis | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
Mammalia | |
Brachyphylla nana Miller 1902 fruit-eating bat
Erophylla sezekorni Gundlach 1861 leaf-nosed bat
Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat | |
Capromys sp. Desmarest 1822 hutia
Geocapromys sp. Chapman 1901 hutia | |
Nesophontes sp. Anthony 1916 placental |