Also known as Cathedral Cave
Where: Puerto Rico (18.3° N, 66.5° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 66.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Although treated by Pregill (1981) as "late Pleistocene," none of these sites have been radiometrically or otherwise precisely dated. Preservation of most bones does not have the appearance of being particularly recent so that an early Holocene to late Pleistocene age (~5–15 thousand years) would seem reasonable.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. R. Choate and E. C. Birney. 1968. Sub-recent Insectivora and Chiroptera from Puerto Rico, with the description of a new bat of the genus Stenoderma. Journal of Mammalogy 49(3):400-412 [B. Allen/B. Allen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 231345: authorized by Bethany Allen, entered by Bethany Allen on 17.08.2023
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Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Nesophontes edithae n. sp.
Nesophontes edithae n. sp. Anthony 1916 Puerto Rican nesophontes | |
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Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray 1834 Antillean fruit-eating bat
Phyllonycteris major n. sp. Anthony 1917 Puerto Rican flower bat | |
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