Where: Haiti (18.3° N, 74.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 74.0° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• "the condition of the material would suggest a recent age in line with the other Holocene fossils known from the area"
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by C. Woods in 1984; reposited in the FLMNH
Collection methods: quarrying,
• recovered by "excavation"
Primary reference: S. B. Cooke, A. L. Rosenberger, and S. Turvey. 2011. An extinct monkey from Haiti and the origins of the Greater Antillean primates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108:2699-2704 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 119044: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.10.2011, edited by Kateryn Pino
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Insulacebus toussaintiana n. gen. n. sp.
Insulacebus toussaintiana n. gen. n. sp. Cooke et al. 2011 monkey | |
Rhizoplagiodontia lemkei n. gen. n. sp.1, Isolobodon montanus2, Isolobodon portoricensis2, Hexolobodon phenax2, Brotomys voratus2
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