Where: Puerto Rico (18.3° N, 66.8° W: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 66.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Exit Cave, northwest of Rio Tanama, Utuado
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous carbonate
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Reposited in the USNM
Collection methods: surface (float),
• University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez Paleontological Collection
Primary reference: C. E. Schweitzer, J. Velez-Juarbe, M. Martiniez, A. Hull, R. M. Feldmann and H. Santos. 2008. New Cretaceous and Cenozoic Decapoda (Crustacea: Thalassinidea, Brachyura) from Puerto Rico, United States Territory. Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum 34:1-15 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 78300: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Carrie Schweitzer on 01.02.2008, edited by Philip Mannion
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Cardisoma guanhumi Latreille 1828 crab | |
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Mammalia | |
Acratocnus odontrigonus Anthony 1916 edentate UPRMP 2921 and UPRMP 2982 (Two partial right femora) and UPRMP 2983 (left upper canine)
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Nesophontes edithae Anthony 1916 Puerto Rican nesophontes UPRMP 2987 (Partial left femur) and UPRMP 3077 (left jaw ramus)
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Elasmodontomys obliquus Anthony 1916 caviomorph UPRMP 2920 (Right distal humerus), UPRMP 2952 (right proximal femur), UPRMP 2984 (partial molariform), UPRMP 2985 (upper incisor) and UPRMP 2986 (left premaxilla)
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