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

Reptilia
 Squamata - Iguanidae
Leiocephalus carinatus Gray 1827 Northern curlytail lizard
 Squamata - Polychrotidae
Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron 1837 Brown anole
 Squamata - Anguidae
Celestus crusculus Garman 1887 Garman's galliwasp
 Squamata - Gekkonidae
Aristelliger praesignis Hallowell 1856 croacking gecko
Aves
 Strigiformes - Strigidae
Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl
 Pelecaniformes - Threskiornithidae
Eudocimus cf. albus Linnaeus 1758 White ibis
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater
Mammalia
 Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Brachyphylla nana Miller 1902 fruit-eating bat
Erophylla sezekorni Gundlach 1861 leaf-nosed bat
Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat
 Rodentia - Capromyidae
Capromys sp. Desmarest 1822 hutia
Geocapromys sp. Chapman 1901 hutia
 Soricomorpha - Nesophontidae
Nesophontes sp. Anthony 1916 placental