Where: Cayman Islands (19.8° N, 79.7° W: paleocoordinates 19.8° N, 79.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene to Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• Spot Bay Cave not dated beyond being late Quaternary.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: D. W. Steadman and O. M. Takano. 2016. A new extinct species of Snipe (Aves: Scolopacidae: Gallinago) from the West Indies. Zootaxa 4109:345-358 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 209852: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.05.2020, edited by Mark Uhen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Mammalia | |
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Macrotus waterhousii Gray 1843 leaf-nosed bat | |
|
Capromys sp. Desmarest 1822 hutia
Geocapromys sp. Chapman 1901 hutia | |
| Aves | |
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Athene cunicularia Molina 1782 burrowing owl | |
|
Tyto alba Scopoli 1769 barn owl | |
"Columba inornata" = Patagioenas inornata
"Columba inornata" = Patagioenas inornata Vigors 1827 plain pigeon | |
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus
"Amazona leucocephala" = Psittacus leucocephalus Linnaeus 1758 Cuban parrot | |
|
Puffinus lherminieri Lesson 1839 Audubon's shearwater | |
"Nycticorax violaceus" = Nyctanassa violacea
"Nycticorax violaceus" = Nyctanassa violacea Linnaeus 1758 yellow-crowned night heron | |
|
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird | |
"Capella sp." = Gallinago, Gallinago kakuki
"Capella sp." = Gallinago Brisson 1760 snipe
Gallinago kakuki Steadman and Takano 2016 snipe | |
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Falco columbarius Linnaeus 1758 merlin | |
| Reptilia | |
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Cyclura nubila Gray 1831 rock iguana | |
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Anolis sagrei Dumeril and Bibron 1837 Brown anole | |