Cueva Catedral (Pleistocene to of Puerto Rico)

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
 Soricomorpha - Nesophontidae
Nesophontes edithae n. sp. Anthony 1916 Puerto Rican nesophontes
 Chiroptera - Vespertilionidae
Eptesicus fuscus Beauvois 1796 big brown bat
subsp. wetmorei
 Chiroptera - Phyllostomidae
Brachyphylla cavernarum Gray 1834 Antillean fruit-eating bat
Monophyllus redmani Leach 1821 Leach's single leaf bat
subsp. portoricensis
Monophyllus plethodon Miller 1900 insular single leaf bat
n. subsp. frater
Phyllonycteris major n. sp. Anthony 1917 Puerto Rican flower bat
 Chiroptera - Mormoopidae
Pteronotus parnellii Gray 1843 mustached bat
subsp. portoricensis