Where: Puerto Rico (18.4° N, 67.0° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 19.2° N, 60.7° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: San Sebastian Formation, Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)

• Basal San Sebastian Formation, estimated to be 30.0–29.5 Ma (Early Oligocene). This is based on invertebrate shells from about 80 m stratigraphically above this level that have been strontium-dated as 29.47 ± 0.30 Ma

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; gray, blue mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected in 2012; reposited in the LACM

Primary reference: D. C. Blackburn, R. M. Keeffe, M. C. Vallejo-Pareja and J. Vélez-Juarbe. 2020. The earliest record of Caribbean frogs: A fossil coquí from Puerto Rico. Biology Letters 16:20190947:1-6 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209088: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 24.04.2020

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