Aves - Gruiformes - Nesotrochidae
Full reference: A. Wetmore. 1918. Bones of birds collected by Theodoor de Booy from kitchen midden deposits in the islands of St. Thomas and St. Croix. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 54:513-522
Belongs to Nesotrochis according to M. Stervander et al. 2025
See also Brodkorb 1967, Brodkorb 1974, Lambrecht 1933, Olson 1977, Olson 1974, Wetmore 1956, Wetmore 1918, Wetmore 1922 and Wetmore 1937
Sister taxa: Nesotrochis picapicensis, Nesotrochis steganinos
Type specimen: USNM 225845, a limb element (right femur). Its type locality is Magen's Bay, St. Thomas (de Booy collection), which is in a Holocene terrestrial siliciclastic in Virgin Islands.
Ecology: ground dwelling carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Puerto Rico (5 collections), Virgin Islands (5)
Total: 10 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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