Brown Dust Passage of Drum Cave, near Entrance #3 (Pleistocene to of Jamaica)

Also known as Drum Cave, part of the ‘‘upper’’ sequence of the;10 km Jackson’s Bay cave system

Where: Middlesex, Jamaica (17.7° N, 77.2° W: paleocoordinates 17.7° N, 77.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. D. E. MacPhee and C. Flemming. 2003. A Possible Heptaxodontine and Other Caviidan Rodents from the Quaternary of Jamaica. American Museum Novitates (3422)1-42 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235160: authorized by Juan Carrillo, entered by Kateryn Pino on 07.06.2024

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Rodentia - Heptaxodontidae
Xaymaca fulvopulvis n. gen. n. sp.
Xaymaca fulvopulvis n. gen. n. sp. MacPhee and Flemming 2003 caviomorph
Holotype AMNHM 268011