Where: Haiti (19.4° N, 72.3° W: paleocoordinates 19.4° N, 72.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Near the rear wall in this cavern a pit dug to a depth of 1.6 meters through a layer of stones, bat guano and earth yielded bones below a depth of half a meter. Contains human femur and stone artifacts, suggesting Holocene age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by J.S. Brown, W.S. Burbank in 1921; reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: A. Wetmore. 1922. Remains of birds from caves in the republic of Haiti. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 74(4):1-4 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195074: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2018

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