Where: New Providence Island, Bahamas (25.0° N, 77.5° W: paleocoordinates 25.0° N, 77.5° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• The age of the fossil deposit in Banana Hole is uncertain, although the strong representation of arid-adapted species of birds identified by Brodkorb (1959), Olson and Hilgartner (1982), and herein suggests that the fossils probably date to the late Pleistocene. In May 2016, we attempted to radiocarbon (14C) date 2 femora of the rodent G. ingrahami from Banana Hole at Beta Analytic Inc., but neither specimen (Beta432277, 432278) had enough collagen to yield results. A 14C date (Beta-24481) of 7,980 +/- 230 yr BP was reported by Morgan (1989) based on collagen extracted from an unknown number of bones of G. ingrahami from Banana

•Hole. When calendrically calibrated (using OxCal13), this 14C date is 9,437 to 8,400 Cal BP (calibrated years before present; 95.4% confidence).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sinkhole; limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by William Hanon, Storrs Olson, Helen F. James, Frederick V. Grady, and Charles A. Meister in 1978; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. K. Pregill. 1982. Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles from New Providence Island, Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 48:8-21 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 144649: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 14.05.2013, edited by Richard Hulbert and Matthew Clapham

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