Also known as Abaco
Where: Great Abaco Island, Bahamas (26.2° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.2° N, 77.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sinkhole; limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FLMNH
Collection methods: core, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, R. Franz, G. S. Morgan, N. A. Albury, B. Kakuk, K. Broad, S. E. Franz, K. Tinker, M. P. Pateman, T. A. Lott, D. M. Jarzen and D. L. Dilcher. 2007. Exceptionally well preserved late Quaternary plant and vertebrate fossils from a blue hole on Abaco, The Bahamas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104(50):19897-19902 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 144663: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 15.05.2013, edited by Mark Uhen and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat | |
Tadarida brasiliensis Geoffroy 1824 Mexican free-tailed bat | |
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
Myotis sp. Kaup 1829 vesper bat | |
Reptilia | |
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Alsophis sp. Fitzinger 1843 colubrid snake | |
Epicrates striatus rainbow boa | |
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Typhlops sp. Oppel 1811 blind snake | |
Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron 1837 Brown anole | |
Chelonoidis sp. Fitzinger 1835 turtle | |
Crocodylus rhombifer Cuvier 1807 Cuban crocodile | |
Aves | |
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Falco sparverius Linnaeus 1758 American kestrel | |
Rallus cyanocavi n. sp.2
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"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus Linnaeus 1758 Cuban parrot | |
Zenaida aurita, "Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala
Zenaida aurita Temminck 1809 zenaida dove
"Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala Linnaeus 1758 white-crowned pigeon | |
Colaptes sp. Vigors 1825 woodpecker | |
Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
Tyto sp. Billberg 1828 barn owl | |
Passeriformes indet. Linnaeus 1758 perching bird | |
Geothlypis rostrata Bryant 1867 Bahama yellowthroat | |
Spizella passerina Bechstein 1798 chipping sparrow | |
Sturnella magna Linnaeus 1758 eastern meadowlark | |
Margarops fuscatus Vieillot 1808 pearly-eyed thrasher | |
Contopus caribaeus d'Orbigny 1839 Cuban pewee | |
Tiaris bicolor Linnaeus 1766 black-faced grassquit | |
Petrochelidon fulva Vieillot 1808 cave swallow | |
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
Nyctanassa violacea Linnaeus 1758 yellow-crowned night heron | |
Eudocimus albus Linnaeus 1758 White ibis | |
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Pandion haliaetus Linnaeus 1758 osprey |