Also known as Isla San Bartolomé
Where: Antillas Francesas, French Southern Territories (17.8° N, 62.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.8° N, 62.7° W)
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When: Flamand Member (Saint Bartholomew Formation), Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
Environment/lithology: fissure fill; lithology not reported
• Sites ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ are fissures on the islet of Ile Coco, lying 4.5 km southeast of Gustavia, St.Barthélemy (17.873 ºN, 62.812 ºW), and 800 m offt he southern coast of the main island. These fissures are apparently the remains of former vadose cave passages, heavily invested with speleothem calcite, that were subsequently unroofed by erosion (McFarlane et al. 2014).
• The basal deposit in the cave remnants is a very thick, massive laminated flowstone, ‘Unit 1’. This is overlain by the fossiliferous residuum, well displayed at Site A. Elsewhere (e.g., Site B), the fissures and cave remnants are infilled with marine sands and capped by a thin (~ 2 cm) flowstone floor, ‘Unit 2’. The calcite layers, units 1 and 2, were dated by the uranium series disequilbrium method. Site C consists of a former narrow fissure in what was probably an ancient cave floor that is now infilled with calcite (McFarlane et al. 2014).
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. A. McFarlane, J. Lundberg, and G. Maincent. 2014. New specimens of Amblyrhiza inundata (Rodentia:Caviomorpha) from the Middle Pleistocene of Saint Barthélemy, French West Indies. Caribbean Journal of Earth Science (47)15-19 [J. Carrillo/K. Pino]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 235213: authorized by Juan Carrillo, entered by Kateryn Pino on 10.06.2024
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| Rodentia - Heptaxodontidae |
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