Where: Puerto Rico (18.4° N, 67.2° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° N, 66.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Cibao Formation, Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)
• around 16 Ma
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original phosphate
Reposited in the AMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),
Primary reference: R. D. E. MacPhee and A. R. Wyss. 1990. Oligo-Miocene vertebrates from Puerto Rico, with a catalog of localities. American Museum Novitates 2965:1-45 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 56976: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 30.11.2005, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
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Reptilia | |
? Iguanidae indet. Oppel 1811 squamates | |
Boidae indet. Gray 1825 boa | |
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines
"Chelonia indet." = Testudines Batsch 1788 turtle | |
Crocodylia indet.1 crocodilian AMNH 24494 (cranial and mandibular elements including frontal, partial left squamosal, and anterior end of right dentary)
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