Where: Antigua and Barbuda (17.0° N, 61.8° W: paleocoordinates 17.0° N, 61.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• "ranging in age from 1915 +/- 80 yr B.P. to 845 +/- 80 yr B.P."
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
• a "large ceramic cultural" site
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, G. K. Pregill, and S. L. Olson. 1984. Fossil vertebrates from Antigua, Lesser Antilles: evidence for late Holocene human-caused extinctions in the West Indies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 81:4448-4451 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 94616: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 04.03.2010
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
? Amazona sp. Lesson 1830 parrot | |
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica
"Porphyrula martinica" = Porphyrio martinica Linnaeus 1766 purple gallinule | |
Reptilia | |
cf. Boa constrictor Linnaeus 1758 boa | |
Mammalia | |
Oryzomyini indet. rodent |