Where: Matanzas, Cuba (22.9° N, 81.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.0° N, 80.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)

• 14C radiocarbon dates reported in Suarez 2020 are 22,000+/-2,600 ybp, 22,900+/-2700 ybp and >41,000 ybp; Steadman et al. reported 4,960 ± 280 years 14C BP to 11, 880 ± 420 years 14 C BP; from Suarez 2020: "There is no defined pattern of inclusion or accumulation, and all remains are mixed. Stratigraphic levels are not evident and the material can have different absolute ages, since in each inclusion or entrapment event the matrix is modified with new materials"

Environment/lithology: tar; tar

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the CM

• COLLECTORS: Collected by H.G. Richards and R.E. Dickerson (1933). REPOSITORIES: Collections held in the Carnegie Museum.

Primary reference: W. Suarez and S. D. Emslie. 2003. New fossil material with a redescription of the extinct condor Gymnogyps varonai (Arredondo, 1971) from the Quaternary of Cuba (Aves, Vulturidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(1):29-37 [M. Uhen/J. Villari/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 152870: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Joseph Villari on 01.12.2013, edited by Patricia Holroyd

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