Cueva del Muerto (Pleistocene to of Dominican Republic)
Where: Pedernales, Dominican Republic (17.8° N, 71.4° W)
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When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Primary reference: S. T. Turvey, J. Almonte, J. Hansford, R. P. Scofield, J. L. Brocca and S. D. Chapman. 2017. A new species of extinct Late Quaternary giant tortoise from Hispaniola. Zootaxa 4277(1):1-16 [E. Vlachos/E. Vlachos]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186697: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Evangelos Vlachos on 01.07.2017, edited by Kateryn Pino
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Taxonomic list
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Anolis sp. Daudin 1802 anole | |
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Leiocephalus sp. Gray 1827 curly-tailed lizard | |
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Serpentes indet. snake | |
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Celestus sp. Gray 1838 squamates | |
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Acratocnus sp. Anthony 1916 edentate | |
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Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human a complete human skeleton identified as pre-Columbian in age by Professor Renato Rímoli (Museo Nacional del Hombre Dominicano, Santo Domingo), together with lithic tools
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Plagiodontia araeum Ray 1964 hutia
Plagiodontia aedium Cuvier 1836 hutia | |
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Isolobodon portoricensis Flemming and MacPhee 1999 spiny rat | |
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Nesophontes hypomicrus placental
Nesophontes zamicrus placental | |