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 in 1959, 1960; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: S. L. Olson and W. B. Hilgartner. 1982. Fossil and subfossil birds from the Bahamas. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 48:22-56 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 194590: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.06.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Aves | |
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"Capella sp." = Gallinago
"Capella sp." = Gallinago Brisson 1760 snipe | |
Mimus gundlachii Cabanis 1855 Bahama mockingbird | |
Corvus nasicus Temminck 1826 Cuban crow
Corvus palmarum Württemburg 1835 palm crow | |
Tyto pollens Wetmore 1937 Bahama barn owl | |
Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus Linnaeus 1758 Cuban parrot | |
Columbidae indet., Zenaida aurita, "Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala, "Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa, Geotrygon chrysia
Columbidae indet. Illiger 1811 dove
Zenaida aurita Temminck 1809 zenaida dove
"Columba leucocephala" = Patagioenas leucocephala Linnaeus 1758 white-crowned pigeon
"Columba squamosa" = Patagioenas squamosa Bonnaterre 1792 scaly-naped pigeon
Geotrygon chrysia Bonaparte 1855 Key West quail-dove | |
Saurothera merlini d'Orbigny 1839 great lizard-cuckoo | |
Melanerpes superciliaris Temminck 1827 West Indian woodpecker
Colaptes sp. Vigors 1825 woodpecker | |
Porzana carolina Linnaeus 1758 sora |